He was a great Doc Holiday, Val Kilmer passed

[Buckshot Bob]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/actor-val-kilmer-star-batman-forever-dies-65-nyt-reports-2025-04-02/

[Cypress Sun]

He was a good actor but he was absolutely a great actor as Doc Holliday and Jim Morrison.

 

Thanks for the many, many hours of entertainment and all of the Doc quotes that are forever committed to my memory.

 

Rest in Peace Mr. Kilmer.

[Dapper Dave]

See you on the other side, Doc. 😔

[Pat Riot]

Rest in Peace, Val. Thank you for all the great entertainment. 
 

I remember him in his first movie role (that I’m aware of). That movie was funny to me but many did not like it. 

Image from: https://hunguponretro.blogspot.com/2011/09/top-secret-val-kilmer.html?m=1

[Rooster Ron Wayne]

RIP 🙏

[Tex Jones, SASS 2263]

So long, Doc.  RIP.

[Painted Mohawk SASS 77785]

Too young ..great actor & Doc Holiday ..well that was just superb...  RIP..

[Rye Miles #13621]

RIP Val 🙏🙏🙏

[Dantankerous]

Rest in Peace, Val. I loved your work.

[Rooster Ron Wayne]

RIP 🙏

[Boggus Deal #64218]

He was also very good as Capt. Skull in Comanche Moon. 

[Cypress Sun]

2 hours ago, Pat Riot said:

Rest in Peace, Val. Thank you for all the great entertainment. 
 

I remember him in his first movie role (that I’m aware of). That movie was funny to me but many did not like it. 

Image from: https://hunguponretro.blogspot.com/2011/09/top-secret-val-kilmer.html?m=1

 

I thought that movie was hilarious.

[Eyesa Horg]

RIP 🙏 Val

[Rye Miles #13621]

Another good movie was The Ghost and the Darkness 1996 with Micheal Douglas, I liked it, saw it at the show.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_and_the_Darkness

[Subdeacon Joe]

WOW!  and only 65!  Thank you, sir.  You played your parts well.  

[DocWard]

Thank you for the movies and the memories, Sir. Others played the part of Doc Holliday well, but for me, he will always be the Doc Holliday. And yes, I thought Top Secret was hilarious as well!

 

RIP, Doc.

[Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L]

Rest in Peace Val

Enjoyed your many different rolls played, Iceman and of course Doc

[ORNERY OAF]

Real genius was good back in the day, the regulars of course and I am also a "Ghost in the Darkness" fan...he will be missed.rip.

[Cypress Sun]

42 minutes ago, ORNERY OAF said:

Real genius was good back in the day, the regulars of course and I am also a "Ghost in the Darkness" fan...he will be missed.rip.

 

The Ghost and the Darkness was a real good movie. Been looking for the DVD at garage sales, have never found it....kind of tells you something....no one gets rid of their "good" movies regardless of format.

[Rye Miles #13621]

He’s been suffering with throat cancer for about 10 years. I guess he wasn’t strong enough to fight off the pneumonia.🥲😁😆 

[Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L]

47 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

He’s been suffering with throat cancer for about 10 years. I guess he wasn’t strong enough to fight off the pneumonia.🥲😁😆 

His suffering is now over. He can rest in peace.

[Trailrider #896]

RIP, "Doc", "Iceman"! I doubt we will ever see the likes of Val Kilmer on screen! 

[Buckshot Bob]

4 hours ago, Cowtown Scout, SASS #53540 L said:

Rest in Peace Val

Enjoyed your many different rolls played, Iceman and of course Doc

Heat was also a pretty good one 

[Buckshot Bob]

2 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

He’s been suffering with throat cancer for about 10 years. I guess he wasn’t strong enough to fight off the pneumonia.🥲😁😆 

Some of those cancer meds can do a number on your immune system 

[Blackwater 53393]

He was a perfect Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone’s “The Doors”!

 

As I said on the other thread, uncanny!!

[Stump Water]

RIP Madmartigan.

 

I have always heard that Val was very difficult to work with.  He became so immersed in the characters he was playing that he formed his own ideas about how they should be portrayed... which led to the stellar performances like Doc in Tombstone.  What I have read today has not tried to brush that aside, which is a good thing.  For example, I read today that, after studying Jim Morrison, he dressed like him for a year "preparing" for The Doors.

[Cypress Sun]

20 minutes ago, Stump Water said:

RIP Madmartigan.

 

I have always heard that Val was very difficult to work with.  He became so immersed in the characters he was playing that he formed his own ideas about how they should be portrayed... which led to the stellar performances like Doc in Tombstone.  What I have read today has not tried to brush that aside, which is a good thing.  For example, I read today that, after studying Jim Morrison, he dressed like him for a year "preparing" for The Doors.

 

Supposedly a reporter asked Michael Biehn (Johnny Ringo in Tombstone) what it was like to work with Val Kilmer. Biehn replied, "I don't know, I never worked with Val.....I did work with Doc Holliday though."

[watab kid]

i was saddened to hear this , i liked his doc holiday , my wifes age - far too young 

[Stump Water]

Since we'd never seen The Doors we decided to watch it last night.  I couldn't finish it.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

I think his Doc Holliday stole the show. I don’t remember any of the other cast.

[Stump Water]

Kurt Russell, Powers Booth, Sam Elliot, Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton, Dana Delaney...

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

12 minutes ago, Stump Water said:

Kurt Russell, Powers Booth, Sam Elliot, Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton, Dana Delaney...

They’d all be 

, “oh yeah he was in wasn’t he.”

[Stump Water]

 

Kurt Russell Remembers Val Kilmer’s Unshakeable Humor and Their Final Farewell

[Cypress Sun]

1 hour ago, Stump Water said:

Since we'd never seen The Doors we decided to watch it last night.  I couldn't finish it.

 

If I may ask, why?

[Stump Water]

2 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

If I may ask, why?

 

It turned into drugs, sex and rock-n-roll ad nauseum. 

 

Kilmer's portrayal of Morrison was outstanding, but it went on about 45 minutes longer than it should have.