Val Edward Kilmer (December 31, 1959 – April 1, 2025) was an American actor. Originally a stage actor, Kilmer became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appearances in comedy films, starting with Top Secret! (1984), then the cult classic Real Genius (1985), as well as blockbuster action films, including a role in Top Gun and a lead role in Willow.
During the 1990s, Kilmer gained critical respect after a series of films that were also commercially successful, including his roles as Jim Morrison in The Doors, Doc Holliday in 1993's Tombstone, Batman in 1995's Batman Forever, Chris Shiherlis in 1995's Heat, and Simon Templar in 1997's The Saint. During the early 2000s, Kilmer appeared in several well-received roles, including The Salton Sea, Spartan, and supporting performances in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Alexander, and as the voice of KITT in Knight Rider.
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Popularity115
Credits6.2
Rating52.5M
Budget260M
RevenueActing
Primarily2025 Riptide
2024 How to Rob a Bank as Chris Shiherlis (archive footage)
2023 Willow: Behind the Magic as Self / Madmartigan (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022 Top Gun: Maverick as Adm. Tom 'Iceman' Kazansky
2021 Val as Self Producer, Cinematography
2021 The Birthday Cake as Uncle Angelo
2021 A Soldier's Revenge as CJ
2021 Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self (archive footage)
2020 Paydirt as Sheriff Tucker
2019 Jay and Silent Bob Reboot as Bluntman
2019 1st Born as Biden
2018 The Super as Walter
2017 The Snowman as Rafto
2017 Song to Song as Duane
2016 Animals
2016 Cinema Twain as Mark Twain Director, Producer, Writer
2014 Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn as Mark Twain
2014 Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau as Self (archive footage)
2013 Palo Alto as Stewart
2013 Standing Up as Hofstadder
2013 Planes as Bravo (voice)
2013 Twixt: A Documentary as Self
2013 Riddle as Sheriff Richards
2012 The Fourth Dimension as Val Kilmer (segment "The Lotus Community Workshop")
2012 The Roadie
2012 The Lotus Community Workshop as Val Kilmer
2012 7 Below as McCormick
2012 Wyatt Earp's Revenge as Wyatt Earp
2012 Breathless as Dale
2012 Deep in the Heart as The Bearded Man
2011 Twixt as Hall Baltimore
2011 5 Days of War as Dutchman
2011 Blood Out as Arturo
2011 Kill the Irishman as Joe Manditski
2010 The Traveler as Mr. Nobody / Drifter
2010 Gun as Angel
2010 MacGruber as Cunth
2010 The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans as Himself
2010 Bloodworth as Warren Bloodworth
2009 Double Identity as Dr. Nicholas Pinter
2009 Hardwired as Virgil Kirkhill
2009 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans as Stevie Pruit
2009 The Thaw as Dr. David Kruipen
2009 American Cowslip as Todd Inglebrink
2009 Streets of Blood as Detective Andy Devereaux
2009 The Steam Experiment as Jimmy
2008 Delgo as Bogardus (voice)
2008 Unconquered: Allan Houser and the Legacy of One Apache Family as Narrator (voice)
2008 Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight as Self
2008 XIII: The Conspiracy as La Mangouste
2008 2:22 as Maz
2008 Columbus Day as John Cologne
2008 Felon as John Smith
2008 The Love Guru as Val Kilmer (uncredited)
2008 Mon Clown as Self
2008 American Meth as Narrator
2008 Knight Rider as K.I.T.T. (voice)
2008 Conspiracy as MacPherson
2007 Have Dreams, Will Travel as Henderson
2006 Déjà Vu as Agent Pryzwarra
2006 Moscow Zero as Andrey
2006 Dead Man's Bounty as The Wanted Man
2006 Played as Dillon
2006 10th & Wolf as Murtha
2006 The Ten Commandments: The Musical as Moses
2005 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang as Gay Perry
2005 Champion as Self
2005 The Making of 'Heat' as Self
2005 Trudell as Self - Actor, Friend
2004 Alexander as Philip
2004 Bounty Hunters as Himself
2004 Stateside as Staff Sergeant Skeer
2004 Danger Zone: The Making of Top Gun as Self
2004 Mindhunters as Jake Harris
2004 George and the Dragon as El Cabillo (uncredited)
2004 Spartan as Scott
2003 Blind Horizon as Frank Kavanaugh
2003 The Missing as Lt. Jim Ducharme
2003 The Seventh Man as Self - Narrator (voice)
2003 Wonderland as John Holmes
2003 Masked and Anonymous as Animal Wrangler
2002 Hard Cash as FBI Agent Mark C. Cornell
2002 The Salton Sea as Tom Van Allen | Danny Parker
2000 Red Planet as Robby Gallagher
2000 Pollock as Willem DeKooning
1999 The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen as Self (archive footage)
1999 Joe the King as Bob Henry
1999 At First Sight as Virgil Adamson
1998 The Prince of Egypt as Moses (voice)
1997 The Doors: The Road of Excess as Self
1997 The Saint as Simon Templar
1996 The Ghost and the Darkness as Col. John Henry Patterson
1996 Dead Girl as Dr. Dark
1996 The Island of Dr. Moreau as Montgomery
1996 A Century of Science Fiction as Self
1995 Heat as Chris Shiherlis
1995 Wings of Courage as Jean Mermoz
1995 Batman Forever as Bruce Wayne / Batman
1995 Riddle Me This: Why Is Batman Forever? as Self - Batman
1993 Tombstone as Doc Holliday
1993 The Real McCoy as J.T. Barker
1993 True Romance as Mentor
1992 Thunderheart as Ray Levoi
1991 The Doors as Jim Morrison
1991 Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers as Reader
1989 Kill Me Again as Jack Andrews
1989 Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid as William Bonney
1988 Willow as Madmartigan
1988 Willow: The Making of an Adventure as Self / Madmartigan
1987 The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains as Robert Elliot Burns / Elliot Roberts
1986 The Murders in the Rue Morgue as Philippe Huron
1986 Top Gun as Ice
1985 Real Genius as Chris Knight
1985 One Too Many as Eric
1984 Top Secret! as Nick Rivers
6.70 History 5
6.67 TV Movie 7
6.59 Documentary 17
6.16 Romance 11
6.01 Drama 36
5.97 Crime 30
5.94 Action 29
5.92 Mystery 13
5.90 Animation 3
5.89 Adventure 14
5.81 Music 6
5.78 War 2
5.77 Comedy 14
5.77 Science Fiction 9
5.75 Family 4
5.69 Western 6
5.62 Thriller 33
5.50 Fantasy 4
4.90 Horror 9