Popular Hollywood actor, Val Kilmer is dead

Veteran Hollywood actor, Val Kilmer, has passed away.

TheNewsGuru learnt that the daughter of the deceased, Mercedes Kilmer, in a statement on Tuesday night confirmed  her father’s demise.

The statement indicated that the veteran movie star  died on Tuesday in Los Angeles at the age of 65 after a prolonged battle with pneumonia.

Known as one of the most prominent Hollywood actors in the 1990s before his row with directors and co-stars and a series of flops dented his career.

The actor came into limelight after featuring in the movie,  “Top Gun,”and was also recognized for portraying Jim Morrison in “The Doors,” Doc Holliday in “Tombstone,” and Batman in Batman Forever.

Kilmer, who was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014, but he later recovered also played large roles in Heat, 1995, The Saint, 1997, Willow, 1988, and more recently, Top Gun, Maverick.

Over the years, Kilmer gained a reputation as temperamental, intense, perfectionistic and sometimes egotistical.