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Val Kilmer, the brood­ing, ver­sa­tile ac­tor who played fan favourite Ice­man in “Top Gun,” donned a vo­lu­mi­nous cape as Bat­man in “Bat­man For­ev­er” and por­trayed Jim Mor­ri­son in “The Doors,” has died. He was 65.

Kilmer died Tues­day night in Los An­ge­les, sur­round­ed by fam­i­ly and friends, his daugh­ter, Mer­cedes Kilmer, said in an email to The As­so­ci­at­ed Press. The Times was the first to re­port his death on Tues­day.

Val Kilmer died from pneu­mo­nia. He had re­cov­ered af­ter a 2014 throat can­cer di­ag­no­sis that re­quired two tra­cheotomies.