Val Kilmer, the Hollywood star of Heat, Tombstone, The Doors, Batman Forever, and my personal favorite Real Genius, is dead at 65. He had been battling throat cancer for several years.

I highly recommend watching the documentary on his life, Val. His son provided the actor’s voice. The film utilized hundreds of hours of video he had recorded over the years, revealing the sets he worked on and showing the actor as an introspective thinker with an artist’s soul.