Dead at 65

Kerner, I'm sorry about Iceman. Everybody liked him. I'm sorry.

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I think I'll go embarrass myself with Goose.

I will always know him as the villain Dieter von Cunth, MacGruber's arch enemy.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Iconic as Doc Holliday in Tombstone. Other favorites of mine included Heat, Real Genius and a small but funny role in Entourage. Was looking at his IMDB page and didn't realize he was in True Romance. He plays Elvis in a very short 90 second scene. Saw that one in the theater, it was the first date I had with my first wife. Didn't get great box office numbers but sort of a cult classic after Tarantino's movies came to the forefront. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it and has a great cast.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

I would guess his role in Top Secret, as an Elvis like american spy during the cold war got him the job as Elvis.

Top Secret is one of those parody type movies that came out around the time Leslie Neilson was doing his best work.

this absolutely killed me as a little kid. I still can't stop laughing when I see it:

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Madmartigan in "Willow", Jim Morrison in "The Doors", "Thunderheart", and one of his most underappreciated movies, "Top Secret!".

he was one of hollywood's best working actors in the 90's. RIP.

“I was just foolin about.”

“I wasn’t.”

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

"I'm your huckleberry."

I forgot about that cameo. Gary Oldman is great in that too.

65 is way too young.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

The shootout scene in Heat is awesome

"i have 2 guns. one for each of you."

Check out this documentary that he made shortly after he was diagnosed with throat cancer. He has his son do the narration from the words Val wrote for his film. It is full of video that Val took from the beginning of his career to the end. He carried around a video camera on the set and to all the locations he visited filming. Lots of behind the scenes footage from his point of view. Best documentary I have seen in years.

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=val+kilmer+documentary+netflix&mid=9A3F3026B33C17EC3A199A3F3026B33C17EC3A19&FORM=VIRE

You can find it on Netflix. It is called VAL.

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In preparing to Well, Ackshually you on this line, I learned that the whole theory about him actually saying "huckle bearer" in this scene, along with all the historical claims on the use of the phrase, is total bullshit.

RIP Vinny's girlfriend's Sherpa.

I don't know, but it is the title of his memoir.

I meant that there is a myth circulating on the internet that the line was actually "I'm your huckle bearer", and that historically a "huckle" in those times referred to the handle(s) on a casket. Turns out that there is no historical reference anywhere of anyone during that time referring to casket handles as "huckles" and the line was in fact "I'm your huckleberry". Thank goodness I checked first.

He was good in the Doors too.

You have to take pneumonia seriously. Why wasn't he hospitalized?