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Val Kilmer, Actor Renowned for Receding Into His Roles, Dies at 65

He was memorable as Iceman in 'Top Gun,' Jim Morrison in 'The Doors,' Doc Holliday in 'Tombstone' and the Caped Crusader in 'Batman Forever.'

Val Kilmer, the charisma-oozing leading man who lost himself portraying such tormented, self-loathing characters as Jim Morrison, gunslinger Doc Holliday and Batman during his all-too-brief career, died Tuesday. Wesley, his younger sibling, suffered an epileptic seizure and drowned in a swimming pool at the family home that his father had bought from Western movie legends Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. He made an ABC Afterschool Special called One Too Many, in which he played a teenage alcoholic alongside Mare Winningham, then portrayed a lazy laser-technology whiz kid in Real Genius(1985), from director Martha Coolidge.

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