In the actor’s memories published in 2020 with the title I’M Your Huckleberry: A Memoir confirmed that in 2015 he was diagnosed with larynx cancer.
Val kilmerone of the most talented and recognized actors of his generation died at age 65. The news was confirmed by her daughter Mercedes to New York Times.
On May 1, 2017, Val Kilmer assured Reddit having cancer. Six months before, Michael Douglas He said Val Kilmer suffered from throat cancer, but he himself denied it. Although in the memoirs published in 2020 with the title I’M Your Huckleberry: A Memoir confirmed that in 2015 he was diagnosed with larynx cancer. SU Daughter Mercedes confirmed that the actor’s death was Tuesday (yesterday April 1) because of pneumonia.
Val Kilmer’s childhood and how his brother’s death marked
VAL EDWARD KILMERof Cherokee, Irish, German and Swedish ancestry, New Year’s Eve of 1959 was born in Chatsworth, a suburb of Los Angeles. His father was a aerospace engineer and real estate promoter, and his housewife (they divorced when he was 9 years old). He had an older brother and a minor one.
Wesley, his younger brother, suffered an epileptic attack and drowned in a family pool that his father had bought them from the western cinema legends Roy Rogers and Give Evans. At that time, Kilmer was about to study interpretation of Juilliard in New York; He was 17 years old and was the youngest person to be admitted in the theater division of the school.
“It was a very emotional moment for me and, in a way, the extremely high standards and the school activity I am sure they were good for me, because I was forced to really challenge myself about my own life, you know, what I believe about life and death”He said in a 2005 interview.
Debuted in Broadway in 1983 with Slab Boyswork in which they also participated Sean Penn and Kevin Bacon.
In his first film, Kilmer played the teenage idol of Rockabilly, Nick Rivers, in the crazy spy parody Top Secret! (1984), by Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers. From there his career grew until he became an icon of the eighties and the nineties.
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