Val Kilmer

biography:
Val Edward Kilmer (December 31, 1959 – April 1, 2025) was an American actor. Originally a stage actor, Kilmer became popular in the mid-1980s after a string of appearances in comedy films, starting with Top Secret! (1984), then the cult classic Real Genius (1985), as well as blockbuster action films, including a role in Top Gun and a lead role in Willow.

During the 1990s, Kilmer gained critical respect after a series of films that were also commercially successful, including his roles as Jim Morrison in The Doors, Doc Holliday in 1993's Tombstone, Batman in 1995's Batman Forever, Chris Shiherlis in 1995's Heat, and Simon Templar in 1997's The Saint. During the early 2000s, Kilmer appeared in several well-received roles, including The Salton Sea, Spartan, and supporting performances in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Alexander, and as the voice of KITT in Knight Rider.

Inside the Actors Studio

overview: James Lipton sits down with some of the world's most accomplished actors and directors for penetrating, fascinating interviews.

character: Self

original_name: Inside the Actors Studio

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overview: Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very different perspective.

character: Mason Lancer

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

overview: Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC.

original_name: Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Daily Show

overview: The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.

original_name: The Daily Show

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

overview: A morning talk show with A-list celebrity guests, top-notch performances and one-of-a-kind segments that are unrivaled on daytime television, plus spontaneous, hilarious and unpredictable talk.

original_name: LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Entourage

overview: Film star Vince Chase navigates the vapid terrain of Los Angeles with a close circle of friends and his trusty agent.

character: The Sherpa

original_name: Entourage

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

overview: Stepping into the late-late slot vacated by David Letterman, Conan O'Brien stars in a show that far outdoes its competition in sheer strangeness. Along with the celebrity interviews and musical numbers typical of late-night talk shows, this program make frequent use of odd walk-on characters and frequent "visits" from celebrity guests.

character: Self - Guest

original_name: Late Night with Conan O'Brien

XIII

overview: The first female US President Sally Sheridan is shot dead by a sniper during her Veterans Day speech. Her assassin narrowly escapes the scene with his life, national security hot on his heels - or so it seems. Three months later, an elderly couple discover the body of a wounded man in a tree, wearing a parachute. The young man cannot remember the slightest thing about his own identity.

character: La Mangouste

original_name: XIII

Comanche Moon

overview: Set in the rugged American frontier, Texas Rangers Woodrow Call and Gus McCrae confront Comanche warriors, ruthless outlaws, and the brutal realities of a lawless land, forging fierce friendships and enduring tragic romances as survival comes at a heavy personal cost.

character: Inish Scull

original_name: Comanche Moon

Knight Rider

overview: On the heels of NBC's hit movie, the iconic 1980s television classic  comes roaring back to life as a reinvented, updated and super-charged  action series showcasing the new KITT (Knight Industries Three  Thousand). Absolutely the coolest car ever created, KITT is equipped  with an "AI" (artificial intelligence) that is capable of hacking almost  any system. Its weapons systems match that of a jet fighter, and its  body is capable of actually transforming into other vehicles and using  sophisticated holographic imagery to elude villains.

character: KITT (voice)

original_name: Knight Rider

V Graham Norton

overview:
V Graham Norton was an entertainment programme shown on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom starring Graham Norton, broadcast every weeknight as a successor to the weekly So Graham Norton. It aired from 6 May 2002 to 26 December 2003. It featured celebrities who chatted with Graham and became involved in studio games which were usually laden with sexual innuendo. The studio games were later featured on the clip show Nortonland in 2007 on digital channel Challenge.

The show featured a 'webcam', a roving television camera which was randomly situated in a different place in the UK each week and which followed Graham's instructions and allowed him to interact with the public live. The feature was made technically possible using digital microwave link technology provided by Rear Window Television with the 'spontaneous' webcam feature always produced as a full quality Outside Broadcast, before being made to look like a traditional webcam at the studios.

original_name: V Graham Norton

The Oscars

overview: An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.

original_name: The Oscars

The Choe Show

overview: Renowned artist David Choe turns his eccentric, compassionate and disruptive worldview into a lens for an audience to experience a radical empathy for others. Through art and play, he takes guests on a journey of shared emotional experience.

original_name: The Choe Show

Saturday Night Live

overview: A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.

character: Self - Host

original_name: Saturday Night Live

character: Self - Cameo (uncredited)

Nigella

original_name: Nigella

ABC Afterschool Special

overview: Dramatically presented situations, often controversial, of interest to children and teenagers. Several episodes were either in animated form or presented as documentaries. Topics included illiteracy, substance abuse and teenage pregnancy.

character: Eric

original_name: ABC Afterschool Special

The Spoils of Babylon

overview: Follow the saga of Cynthia and Devon, two siblings whose intense love drives everything and everyone around them to ruin.

character: General Cauliffe

original_name: The Spoils of Babylon

The Reichen Show

overview: A list of celebrity interviews and sensational topics.

original_name: The Reichen Show

The Showbiz Show with David Spade

overview: The Showbiz Show with David Spade was a weekly television program on Comedy Central that starred comedian David Spade. It is a comedic parody of celebrity news programs such as Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood. The show was developed from David Spade's Hollywood Minute segment on Saturday Night Live.

original_name: The Showbiz Show with David Spade

Vivement dimanche

original_name: Vivement dimanche

original_language: fr

Psych

overview:
Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved.

Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.

character: Detective Dobson

original_name: Psych

Golden Globe Awards

overview: An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

character: Self - Audience Member

original_name: Golden Globe Awards

Comanche Moon

job: Associate Producer

department: Production

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English

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Español

biography:
Val Edward Kilmer (31 de diciembre de 1959, Los Ángeles) es un actor estadounidense.

Nació en Los Ángeles, California, hijo de un agente inmobiliario. A los 16 años entra becado en la prestigiosa Julliard School. Comenzó a ser popular tras su interpretación en la obra Slab Boys, que representó en Broadway al lado de Kevin Bacon y Sean Penn. Ha rodado documentales y publicado libros de poesía. Kilmer intervino en comedias al principio de su carrera, como Top Secret! (1984), y compartió escenas con Tom Cruise en el éxito de Tony Scott, Top Gun (1986), aunque su encarnación de Jim Morrison en The Doors, de Oliver Stone, le dio la fama.

En 1988 se casó con la actriz Joanne Whalley, de quien terminaría divorciándose en 1996. Con Joanne compartiría créditos en las películas Willow (1988) y Kill me again (1989).

Sus papeles más reconocidos llegaron en los 90, donde interpretó al personaje Batman, en la película de Joel Schumacher, Batman Forever (1995). Ese mismo año compartió pantalla con De Niro y Al Pacino en el thriller policíaco de Michael Mann, Heat. En 1997, protagonizó uno de sus papeles más reconocidos en El Santo, donde interpretó al ladrón Simon Templar.

En 2003 encarnó a la estrella del porno John Holmes en la película Wonderland, un largometraje que indaga en la implicación de este personaje en un cuádruple asesinato que tuvo lugar en 1981. Un año más tarde rodó, bajo las órdenes de Oliver Stone, la película bélico-histórica, Alejandro Magno (2004), donde dio vida a Filipo II de Macedonia. Ese mismo año también protagonizó el thriller político Spartan.

En 2005 coprotagonizó, junto a Robert Downey Jr., la comedia policíaca Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, con la que obtuvo muy buenas críticas y fue reconocido con el Satellite Awards al mejor actor de reparto.

Se dice que mantuvo romances con Cher, Ellen Barkin, Drew Barrymore y Cindy Crawford. Su madre era de origen sueco, y la ascendencia de su padre incluye la alemana, irlandesa y cherokee.

En 2009 Kilmer expresó en una entrevista sus ganas de presentar, en un futuro cercano, su candidatura para convertirse en gobernador de su estado de origen, Nuevo México. Estas declaraciones recibieron el apoyo del gobernador de dicho estado, Bill Richardson.

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Deutsch

biography: Val Edward Kilmer wurde am 31. Dezember 1959 in Los Angeles geboren und war ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler. Er absolvierte die Juilliard School und begann seine Karriere am Theater, bevor er 1984 mit der Komödie „Top Secret!“ sein Filmdebüt gab. Sein Durchbruch gelang ihm 1986 als Kampfpilot Iceman in „Top Gun – Sie fürchten weder Tod noch Teufel“. Es folgten Rollen in „Willow“ (1988), „The Doors“ (1991) als Jim Morrison, „Tombstone“ (1993) als Doc Holliday und „Batman Forever“ (1995) als Bruce Wayne. In den späten 1990er-Jahren spielte er in Filmen wie „Der Geist und die Dunkelheit“ (1996) und „The Saint – Der Mann ohne Namen“ (1997). Kilmer war bekannt für seine intensive Rollenvorbereitung, galt jedoch als schwieriger Kollege am Set. Ab den 2000er-Jahren übernahm er vermehrt Nebenrollen, darunter in „Alexander“ (2004) und „Déjà Vu – Wettlauf gegen die Zeit“ (2006). 2005 wurde er für seine Rolle in „Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang“ gelobt. 2015 wurde bei ihm Kehlkopfkrebs diagnostiziert, was zu einer Tracheotomie und erheblichen Stimmproblemen führte. Trotzdem kehrte er 2022 in „Top Gun: Maverick“ mithilfe von KI-gestützter Stimmtechnologie als Iceman zurück. Sein Leben und seine Karriere wurden in der Dokumentation „Val“ (2021) beleuchtet. Kilmer war von 1988 bis 1996 mit der Schauspielerin Joanne Whalley verheiratet und hatte zwei Kinder, darunter Schauspieler Jack Kilmer. Er starb am 1. April 2025 in Los Angeles an den Folgen einer Lungenentzündung, die durch seine langjährigen gesundheitlichen Komplikationen verschärft wurde.

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Magyar

biography:
Val Kilmer 1959. december 31-én született Los Angelesben, ereiben édesanyja részéről svéd, édesapja részéről angliai, francia és indián vér keveredik. Kevin Spacey-vel járt a középiskolába, majd színésznek tanult a Hollywood Professional School és a Julliard School fala között.

A ’80-as évek elején színházakban játszott, emiatt Francis Ford Coppola felkérését is el kellett utasítania. Egy előadásban Kevin Bacon és Sean Penn voltak a partnerei, 1983-ban pedig saját verseskötetet adott ki. Első filmes sikerét a Top Secretben (1984) aratta, majd David Lynch felkérését mondta le, mielőtt a Top Gunban (1986) elismert sztárrá vált volna Tom Cruise oldalán. A film több mint 300 millió dolláros bevételt hozott.

Karrierjének egyik legemlékezetesebb szerepét Oliver Stone életrajzi filmjében, a The Doorsban (1991) kapta, ahol a karizmatikus Jim Morrisont formálta meg. A szerepre mintegy egy éven át készült, hangját még az együttes tagjai is dicsérték.

Az 1993-as Tiszta románcban már Elvis Presley-t formálta meg, melynek forgatókönyvét  Quentin Tarantino írta. Szintén elismerést váltott ki a Tombstone - Halott város (1994) című filmben nyújtott alakítása. Ennek kapcsán figyelt fel rá Joel Schumacher, és kérte fel a készülő Mindörökké Batman (1995) főszerepére. A vegyes fogadtatás után Kilmer nem vállalta el a folytatást. Szintén 1995-ben készült a Szemtől szemben, melyben Al Pacino és Robert De Niro oldalán láthattuk a filmvásznon. Ezt követően Az angyalban (1997) Kilmer Simon Templart alakította, de a filmben elhangzó versek is az színész tollából származnak.

A 2000-es éveket vegyes minőségű akciófilmek jellemezték, köztük Oliver Stone egyik kudarca, a Nagy Sándor, a hódító (2004). Kiemelkednek ebből az időszakból a Durr, durr és csók (2005) és a Mocskos zsaru - New Orleans utcáin (2009) című filmek, utóbbi Werner Herzog rendezésében készült.

Kilmer költőként is aktív maradt, 2012-ben Grammy-díjra is jelölték.

Első házassága Joanne Whalley-vel 1988 és 1996 között tartott, két gyermekük született.

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Polski

biography: Aktorstwem zainteresował się w szkole średniej. Kiedy miał 17 lat, został przyjęty jako najmłodszy student do elitarnej szkoły Julliard w Nowym Jorku, gdzie uczył się tej sztuki. W 1983 roku zadebiutował na Broadwayu w sztuce "Slab Boys". Partnerowali mu wtedy zupełnie również nieznani Kevin Bacon i Sean Penn. Rok później Kilmer po raz pierwszy wystąpił w filmie. Zagrał główną rolę w komedii "Ściśle tajne", która stała się wielkim przebojem i uczyniła aktora znanym. Kolejne filmy takie jak: "Prawdziwy geniusz", czy "Top Gun" umocniły jego pozycję. Jednak prawdziwa kariera i sława Kilmera przyszła dopiero w 1988 roku. Zagrał wtedy w filmie fantasy wyreżyserowanym przez Rona Howarda "Willow". Mimo iż okazał się on kasowym niewypałem, to jednak sprawił, iż nazwisko Kilmera stało się znane na całym świecie.  W 1991 roku aktor wystąpił w obrazie, którym udowodnił wszystkim, że jest w swoim fachu nie tylko zdolnym rzemieślnikiem, ale również bardzo utalentowanym artystą. Wcielił się wtedy w postać Jima Morrisona lidera grupy "The Doors" w filmie pod tym samym tytułem. Stworzył kreację tak przekonywującą, że sami członkowie zespołu oglądając film twierdzili, iż czuli się tak, jakby Jim powrócił zza grobu. Warto wiedzieć, że niektóre z piosenek stanowiących tło muzyczne obrazu były śpiewane również przez Kilmera. Od tamtej pory Val jest uważany za jednego z najbardziej znanych aktorów Hollywood. Mimo iż obok doskonałych obrazów takich jak: "Tombstone", czy "Gorączka", ma na swoim koncie również niewypały: "Wyspa doktora Moreau", "Święty", jego popularność pozostaje cały czas na wysokim poziomie.

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Português

biography: Val Edward Kilmer (Los Angeles, 31 de dezembro de 1959) é um ator americano. Originalmente ator de teatro, Kilmer tornou-se popular em meados da década de 1980, após estrelar vários filmes de comédia, começando com Top Secret! (1984) e Real Genius (1985). Também estrelou filmes de ação, incluindo um papel secundário em Top Gun (1986) e um papel maior em Willow (1988). Durante a década de 1990, Kilmer ganhou o respeito crítico depois de estrelar vários filmes que também foram bem sucedidos comercialmente, incluindo seu papel como Jim Morrison em The Doors (1991), Doc Holliday em Tombstone (1993), Batman em Batman Forever (1995).

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한국어/조선말

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普通话

方·基默

biography: 方·基默 Val Kilmer 出生加州洛杉矶，在中学里，他学习了表演，唱歌，及写作。17岁时，开始戏剧演出。一年以后，开始了他的第一场百老汇的演出，与他同台的的当时已小有名气的凯文培根和肖恩潘。从舞台到银幕的飞跃发生在1984年，他在一部名为《最高机密》的影片中既演且唱。在伦敦表演时，他遇见了漂亮的英国女演员乔安娜·惠尔利。几年后，在乔治·卢卡斯的一部影片中，他们又再相遇。方基默进行六个月长马拉松式的追求。终于在1989年与之结婚。婚后，方基默才知道她就是在伦敦时的那位女演员。尽管瓦尔·基尔默已经向人们证明他是个出色的演员。但他被人们所关注还是在奥立佛斯通导演的一部关于歌星吉姆·莫里森的传记电影《大门》中。他非常投入地进行演出，观众们被他的出色表演所征被了。而在片尾所播放的歌曲则是混合了他和杰米·莫利森的原声演唱，天衣无缝。尽管这部影片票房并不理想，但瓦尔·基尔默作为同时代最有天赋的演员之一广受关注。他一直是位敬业而且出色的演员，在《盗火线》、《永远的蝙蝠侠》、《圣徒》、《亚历山大大帝》等一系列影片中不断展现自己的实力，但仍旧缺少一部重量级的作品令他更上一层楼。

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Français

biography:
Val Edward Kilmer, dit Val Kilmer, né le 31 décembre 1959 à Los Angeles (Californie), aux États-Unis, est un acteur américain.

Il est révélé durant les années 1980 par le film « Top Gun (1986), de Tony Scott, aux côtés de Tom Cruise, puis s'impose en tête d'affiche du film de type heroic fantasy, « Willow » (1988), de Ron Howard.

Il confirme au début des années 1990 en prêtant ses traits à Jim Morrison dans le biopic « Les Doors » (1991), d'Oliver Stone, puis en menant le thriller d'action « Cœur de tonnerre » (1992), de Michael Apted. Il est aussi aux casting de plusieurs longs-métrages acclamés par la critique : « True Romance » (1993), de Tony Scott, « Tombstone » (1993), de George Pan Cosmatos, et « Heat (1995), de Michael Mann.

Cependant, ses prestations en tête d'affiche de grosses productions se soldent par des échecs critiques : quand il devient Bruce Wayne pour « Batman Forever » (1995), de Joel Schumacher, ou encore lorsqu'il incarne le héros du thriller fantastique « L'Île du docteur Moreau » (1996), de John Frankenheimer. Deux échecs commerciaux fragilisent sérieusement sa carrière : quand il devient Simon Templar pour « Le Saint » (1997), de Phillip Noyce, puis quand il mène le film de science-fiction « Planète rouge » (2000), d'Antony Hoffman.

En 2003, son incarnation de John C. Holmes dans le biopic « Wonderland », de James Cox, ne lui permet pas de se racheter, ni en 2005 son rôle d'espion dans le thriller à petit budget « Spartan », écrit et réalisé par David Mamet. Et en 2005, le succès critique du polar « Kiss Kiss Bang Bang », écrit et réalisé par Shane Black, relance plutôt son partenaire, une autre star déchue, Robert Downey Jr..

Il doit ainsi ses derniers films importants aux réalisateurs qui l'ont dirigé par le passé : en 2004, il joue Philippe II de Macédoine dans « Alexandre », d'Oliver Stone, et en 2006, il joue un agent du FBI dans le thriller de science-fiction « Déjà vu », de Tony Scott.

Il apparaît ensuite dans deux films acclamés par la critique mais échouant commercialement : en 2009, dans le thriller « Bad Lieutenant : Escale à La Nouvelle-Orléans », de Werner Herzog, aux côtés du tandem Nicolas Cage / Eva Mendes ; et en 2011 dans le polar « Bulletproof Gangster », écrit et réalisé par Jonathan Hensleigh, aux côtés de Ray Stevenson.

En 2015, un cancer de la gorge l'astreint à des traitements. Mais s’il a survécu, les traitements ont eu raison de sa voix. Il ne peut plus s'exprimer que par courtes phrases qui restent à décrypter.

Val Kilmer est un artiste intègre, perfectionniste qui a eu le tord de travailler avec Hollywood a une période durant laquelle les Studios ne volulaient plus d'acteurs sachant jouer, mais à des acteurs pour faire présence dans un film.

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Deutsch

biography:
Val Edward Kilmer (* 31. Dezember 1959 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler. Sein Spielfilm-Debüt gab Kilmer im Jahr 1984 in der Komödie Top Secret! von Jim Abrahams und Jerry Zucker. Es folgte Was für ein Genie. Der Durchbruch gelang ihm dann als Antagonist von Tom Cruise in Tony Scotts Erfolgsfilm Top Gun. Anschließend sah man ihn in dem Fantasy-Epos Willow, in Kill me again und Halbblut.

In der Lebensverfilmung der Rock-Legende Jim Morrison in The Doors sang er in der Titelrolle alle Konzert-Sequenzen selbst. Kilmer übernahm einen Gastauftritt in dem Film Noir Dead Girl, bevor er als Hauptdarsteller in Batman Forever auftrat. Nach den Dreharbeiten zu Heat an der Seite von Robert De Niro und Al Pacino nahm Kilmer die Projekte DNA – Die Insel des Dr. Moreau und Der Geist und die Dunkelheit in Angriff, in denen er beide Male die Hauptrollen spielte.

John Frankenheimer, mit dem er 1996 Die Insel des Dr. Moreau drehte, schwor daraufhin, nie wieder mit Kilmer zusammenarbeiten zu wollen. Ähnliche Aussagen wurden auch von Ron Howard und weiteren Personen Mitte der 1990er getätigt, die den Schauspieler als schwierigen Charakter schilderten. Ab den späten 1990er Jahren erhielt Kilmer kaum noch Hauptrollen in größeren Hollywood-Produktionen, 2005 war er in einer Nebenrolle in Alexander (neben Hauptdarsteller Colin Farrell) zu sehen.

2008 lieh Kilmer in der neuen Knight-Rider-Serie (sowie in dem dazugehörigen Pilotfilm Knight Rider) dem Auto K.I.T.T. seine Stimme. Im Jahr 2012 spielte er im Musikvideo To Be the Best von Tenacious D, der Band von Schauspieler Jack Black, mit. Außerdem schrieb die US-amerikanische Punk-Band Bowling for Soup ihren Song Val Kilmer, wobei sie darin eher auf die allgemeine Lage der Filmwelt eingeht.

Val Kilmer und seine Filmkarriere sind Gegenstand der 2021 veröffentlichten Dokumentation Val, die von Leo Scott und Tong Poo verantwortet wurde. Als Grundlage dienten Kilmers eigene Filmaufnahmen, die er während verschiedener Dreharbeiten anfertigte. Auch sein aktueller Gesundheitszustand wird thematisiert. Die Aufführung von Val fand während der Internationalen Filmfestspiele von Cannes 2021 statt. Im Sequel von Top Gun, dem Film Top Gun: Maverick hat Kilmer einen kurzen Auftritt als Admiral Tom „Iceman“ Kazanski, der wie Kilmer an Kehlkopfkrebs leidet.

Pусский

Вэл Килмер

biography:
Вэл Эдвард Килмер родился под знаком Козерога 31 декабря 1959 года на окраине Лос-Анджелеса. Среди его предков были шведы, немцы, монголы, шотландцы, ирландцы и индейцы... Родители Вэла - домохозяйка Глэдис и агент по недвижимости Эжен - развелись, когда ему было девять. После развода Вэл жил то вместе с матерью в Санта-Фе, то с отцом на ранчо в Лос-Анджелесе. Затем его мать снова вышла замуж. Будущий Бэтмен рос со своими старшими братьями - Марком, которого Вэл называет "классный комик", и Уэсли, характеризуемом младшим братом как "дико творческая личность" и "гений".

Кинодебют Вэла состоялся в двадцать четыре года. Это был знаменитый "Топ-секрет" - пародия на шпионский фильм. Килмер самостоятельно спел в фильме все песни, а потом выпустил альбом под именем своего персонажа Ника Риверса. Следующая предложенная роль по какому-то недоразумению не пришлась Вэлу по душе, хотя могла стать еще одним шагом к успеху... Так или иначе, а хорошего парня-танцора в "Грязных танцах" сыграл Патрик Суэйзи.

Затем Килмер немало работал для кино и телевидения. Особенную роль в судьбе Вэла сыграли съемки в фильме Джорджа Лукаса "Уиллоу". Его герой - храбрый и эгоистичный воин, который защищает маленькую принцессу Илору от злой королевы... На этой съемочной площадке актер встретился с Джоанн Уолли. У Килмера, восходящей звезды, были все шансы привлечь внимание Джоанн, и он принялся за ней ухаживать: осыпал цветами, устраивал романтические обеды в шикарных ресторанах, приглашал в театр... В марте 1988 года они поженились. В следующем году они вместе снялись в фильме "Убей меня снова"; потом он стал счастливым отцом дочери Мерседес, родившейся в 1992 году.

Талант Килмера не остался незамеченным, и Джоэл Шумахер пригласил его на роль Бэтмэна в "Бэтмэне навсегда". Эта судьбоносная роль вознесла Вэла на самую вершину популярности. В 1995 году у Вэла и Джоанн родился их второй ребенок, Джек. Мерседес было уже шесть лет. Через шесть недель после рождения Джека Джоанна и Вэл уже не жили вместе, и через восемь месяцев официально разошлись.

普通话

韋·基馬

biography: 韋·基馬 Val Kilmer 出生加州洛杉磯，在中學裏，他學習了表演，唱歌，及寫作。17 歲時，開始戲劇演出。一年以後，開始了他的第一場百老匯的演出，與他同台的的當時已小有名氣的凱文培根和肖恩潘。從舞台到銀幕的飛躍發生在 1984 年，他在一部名為《最高機密》的影片中既演且唱。在倫敦表演時，他遇見了漂亮的英國女演員喬安娜·惠爾利。幾年後，在喬治·盧卡斯的一部影片中，他們又再相遇。韋基馬進行六個月長馬拉松式的追求。終於在 1989 年與之結婚。婚後，韋基馬才知道她就是在倫敦時的那位女演員。儘管瓦爾·基爾默已經向人們證明他是個出色的演員。但他被人們所關注還是在奧立佛斯通導演的一部關於歌星吉姆·莫裏森的傳記電影《火樂焚城》中。他非常投入地進行演出，觀眾們被他的出色表演所徵被了。而在片尾所播放的歌曲則是混合了他和傑米·莫利森的原聲演唱，天衣無縫。儘管這部影片票房並不理想，但瓦爾·基爾默作為同時代最有天賦的演員之一廣受關注。他一直是位敬業而且出色的演員，在《盜火線》、《新蝙蝠俠 - 不敗之謎》、《俠聖》、《亞歷山大帝》等一系列影片中不斷展現自己的實力，但仍舊缺少一部重量級的作品令他更上一層樓。

Italiano

biography:
Val Edward Kilmer è stato un attore statunitense. Originariamente un attore teatrale, Kilmer è diventato popolare a metà degli anni '80 dopo una serie di apparizioni in film comici, a partire da Top Secret! (1984), poi il classico cult Real Genius (1985), oltre a film d'azione di successo, tra cui un ruolo in Top Gun e un ruolo da protagonista in Willow.

Durante gli anni '90, Kilmer ha guadagnato il rispetto della critica dopo una serie di film che hanno avuto successo commerciale, tra cui i suoi ruoli di Jim Morrison in The Doors, Doc Holliday in Tombstone del 1993, Batman in Batman Forever del 1995, Chris Shiherlis in Heat del 1995 e Simon Templar in The Saint del 1997. Durante i primi anni 2000, Kilmer è apparso in diversi ruoli ben accolti, tra cui The Salton Sea, Spartan, e interpretazioni di supporto in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Alexander, e come voce di KITT in Knight Rider.

日本語

ヴァル・キルマー

biography: ロサンゼルス出身。10代の頃にジュリアード音楽院のドラマプログラムに参加し、ハリウッド・プロフェッショナル・スクールで演技を学ぶ。舞台俳優として出発し、コメディ「トップ・シークレット」（84）の主演で映画デビュー。大ヒット作「トップガン」（86）の助演を経て、オリバー・ストーン監督の青春映画「ドアーズ」（91）では、伝説のバンド「ドアーズ」のボーカリスト、ジム・モリソン役で主演を務める。93年には「トゥルー・ロマンス」でエルビス・プレスリー役、「トゥームストーン」で実在のガンマン、ドク・ホリデイ役を演じ、「バットマン・フォーエヴァー」（95）でバットマン役に抜てきされた。以降の出演作に「ヒート」（95）、「キスキス，バンバン」（05）、「バッド・ルーテナント」（09）など。「トップガン」の続編「トップガン　マーヴェリック」（22）では前作と同じアイスマン役を務める。

Türkçe

biography:
Val Edward Kilmer, 31 Aralık 1959 tarihinde Los Angeles, Kaliforniya'da dünyaya gelmiştir. Annesi Gladys ve havacılık ekipmanları dağıtıcısı olan babası Eugene Kilmer'ın oğlu olan Val, lise yıllarında Kevin Spacey ile sınıf arkadaşıydı. Henüz 17 yaşındayken prestijli Juilliard School'un drama bölümüne kabul edilen o dönemki en genç öğrenci olarak tiyatro eğitimine başladı. Sahne kariyerine "Hamlet" ve "Orestes" gibi klasiklerle adım atan Kilmer, sinema dünyasına 1984 yapımı casusluk parodisi "Top Secret!" ile giriş yaptı. Bilimkurgu komedisi "Real Genius" (1985) ile yükselişini sürdürse de, onu küresel bir yıldıza dönüştüren rol, Tom Cruise ile karşılıklı oynadığı "Top Gun" (1986) filmindeki soğukkanlı pilot Tom "Iceman" Kazansky karakteri oldu.

1990'lı yıllar Kilmer'ın kariyerinin zirvesi ve en üretken dönemiydi. Oliver Stone'un yönettiği "The Doors" (1991) filminde rock efsanesi Jim Morrison'ı, vokalleri bizzat seslendirecek kadar kusursuz bir şekilde canlandırdı. Ardından "Tombstone" (1993) filmindeki verem hastası silahşor Doc Holliday performansıyla western türünün en unutulmaz karakterlerinden birine imza attı. Bu başarıları, Michael Mann'in suç başyapıtı "Büyük Hesaplaşma" (Heat) (1995) ve Bruce Wayne karakterini devraldığı gişe rekortmeni "Batman Daima" (Batman Forever) (1995) izledi. Aynı dönemde "Aziz" (The Saint) (1997) filminde kılıktan kılığa giren bir hırsızı canlandırarak aksiyon yıldızı statüsünü pekiştirdi ve "Mısır Prensi" (The Prince of Egypt) (1998) animasyonunda Musa'yı seslendirdi.

2000'li yıllarda Shane Black'in kara komedisi "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" (2005) filmindeki Gay Perry rolüyle eleştirmenlerden tam not aldı. Ancak 2010'ların ortasında gırtlak kanseri teşhisi konulan aktör, geçirdiği trakeotomi operasyonu nedeniyle sesini büyük ölçüde kaybetti. Sanata olan tutkusundan vazgeçmeyen Kilmer, 2021 yılında Cannes Film Festivali'nde prömiyeri yapılan "Val" belgeseliyle yaşam mücadelesini ve kariyerini tüm çıplaklığıyla gözler önüne serdi. 2022 yılında ise, yapay zeka teknolojisiyle sesi yeniden oluşturularak "Top Gun: Maverick" filminde Iceman rolüyle duygusal bir geri dönüş yaptı ve izleyicilere veda niteliğinde bir performans sergiledi.

Val Kilmer, 1 Nisan 2025 tarihinde zatürreye bağlı komplikasyonlar nedeniyle Los Angeles'ta hayata veda etmiştir.

also_known_as:
方·基默
Val Edward Kilmer
方·基墨
وال کیلمر

title: True Romance

overview: Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

title: Batman Forever

overview: Batman faces off against two foes: the schizophrenic, horribly scarred former District Attorney Harvey Dent, aka Two-Face, and the Riddler, a disgruntled ex-Wayne Enterprises inventor seeking revenge against his former employer by unleashing his brain-sucking weapon on Gotham City's residents. As the caped crusader also copes with tortured memories of his parents' murder, he has a new romance, with psychologist Chase Meridian.

title: Heat

overview: Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.

title: Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers

overview: Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers is a 1991 American short documentary film directed by Bill Couturié. It shows footage from World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Gulf War, overlaid with readings of letters from US troops fighting in each war. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

original_title: Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers

title: The Real McCoy

overview: Karen McCoy is released from prison with nothing but the clothes on her back. Before being incarcerated, Karen was the bank robber of her time, but now she wishes for nothing more than to settle down and start a new life. Unfortunately, between a dirty parole officer, old business partners, and an idiot ex, she will have to do the unthinkable in order to save her son.

title: The Saint

overview: Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.

title: Top Gun

overview: For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. But a tragedy, as well as personal demons, will threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an ace pilot.

title: The Doors

overview: The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.

title: Willow

overview: The evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the royal infant is found by Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, he's entrusted with delivering her from evil.

title: The Ghost and the Darkness

overview: Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.

title: Alexander

overview: Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.

title: The Steam Experiment

overview: A deranged scientist locks 6 people in a steam room and threatens to turn up the heat if the local paper doesn't publish his story about global warming.

title: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

overview: A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...

title: Spartan

overview: U.S. government agent Scott is assigned to rescue the daughter of a high-ranking government official. As willing as he is to bend the rules to get things done, though, Scott is shocked to find that others are willing to go even further to protect a political career.

title: Delgo

overview: In a divided land, it takes a rebellious boy and his clandestine love for a Princess of an opposing race to stop a war orchestrated by a power hungry villain.

title: Wonderland

overview: On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the brutal murders - both involving legendary porn actor John Holmes.

title: Hard Cash

overview: Released from prison, an infamous thief and his new crew pull of a brilliant robbery but then become embroiled with a corrupt FBI agent when they discover the money is marked.

title: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

overview: Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.

original_title: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

title: Double Identity

overview: In Chechnya, an American doctor takes a detour in life when he helps a mysterious woman escape from her would-be assailant.

title: Hardwired

overview: After a tragic accident Luke Gibson is left with critical injuries and complete amnesia. A new technological breakthrough from the Hexx Corporation - a Psi-Comp Implant that's hardwired into Luke's brain - saves his life, but Luke soon finds out that this new technology comes with a price and that the Hexx Corporation harbors sinister plans for the new device.

title: The Murders in the Rue Morgue

overview: A detective comes out of retirement to help his daughter's fiance prove that he did not commit a series of murders.

title: Déjà Vu

overview: Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime.

title: The Salton Sea

overview: After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns.

title: The Thaw

overview: At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what's frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the unsuspecting students who are forced to quarantine and make necessary sacrifices, or risk infecting the rest of the world.

title: Kill Me Again

overview: After Faye and her psychotic boyfriend, Vince, successfully rob a mob courier, Faye decides to abscond with the loot. She heads to Reno, where she hires feckless private investigator Jack Andrews to help fake her death. He pulls the scheme off and sets up Faye with a new identity, only to have her skip out on him without paying. Jack follows her to Vegas and learns he's not the only one after her. Vince has discovered that she's still alive.

title: Champion

overview: Danny Trejo, you know the man. He has fierce tattoos, and frequently plays a thug in your favorite movies. Behind the ink and the wicked characters he plays on screen lies the story of a troubled childhood which included drug addiction, armed robbery and extensive prison time. Champion offers an intimate, one of a kind view into the life of Danny Trejo before he turned himself around and after.

title: Blind Horizon

overview: Left for dead in the remote Southwest, Frank is found clinging to life and in a state of amnesia. As he recovers, ominous memories begin to flash back...

title: Masked and Anonymous

overview: A nation wracked with civil war and social unrest anticipates a giant charity concert, organized by deceptive promoter Uncle Sweetheart, who plans on raking in huge sums for himself from the event. Headlining is legendary musician Jack Fate, whose prison time is cut short with Sweetheart's help. Meanwhile, journalist Tom Friend investigates the corrupt concert and sets out to unmask the truth to the public.

title: Tombstone

overview: Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.

title: Played

overview: An examination of the malevolent London underworld with it's despicable criminal underground. Ray (Mick Rossi) just finished an eight year prison sentence after getting set up. Now he is back on the streets to settle the score.

title: 2:22

overview: The plan was easy; the job was not. On a snowy night a tight crew of four criminals plan to pull off a routine heist. When things go horribly wrong, friendship, loyalty and trust are pushed to the limit.

title: Top Secret!

overview: Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.

title: The Missing

overview: When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father, Samuel, in tracking down the kidnappers. Along the way, the two must learn to reconcile the past and work together if they are going to have any hope of getting Lily back before she is taken over the border and forced to become a prostitute.

title: Red Planet

overview: Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.

title: The Love Guru

overview: Born in America and raised in an Indian ashram, Pitka returns to his native land to seek his fortune as a spiritualist and self-help expert. His skills are put to the test when he must get a brokenhearted hockey player's marriage back on track in time for the man to help his team win the Stanley Cup.

title: Thunderheart

overview: A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.

title: The Traveler

overview: On a dark Christmas Eve in a small town, the lone Sheriffs on the night shift encounter a mysterious man who goes by the name of Mr. Nobody. As the night progresses, the Sheriffs discover that this isn't just a nobody, but a vengeful killer whose past threatens to haunt them all.

title: The Island of Dr. Moreau

overview: A plane crash surviving attorney stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA—with horrific results.

title: Moscow Zero

overview: In Moscow, the priest Owen hires a team to guide him in the underworld to find his friend Sergei that is missing while researching the legend about the existence of demons and an entrance to hell beneath the city.

title: 10th & Wolf

overview: A former street thug returns to his Philadelphia home after a stint in the military. Back on his home turf, he once again finds himself tangling with the mob boss who was instrumental in his going off to be a soldier.

title: Felon

overview: A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.

title: Conspiracy

overview: A Gulf War veteran with PTSD heads to a small town to find his friend. When he arrives his friend and his family have vanished and the townsfolk afraid to answer questions about their disappearance. He soon discovers that the town is owned and controlled by one man, and he doesn't like people asking questions.

title: Pollock

overview: In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.

title: The Prince of Egypt

overview: The strong bond between two Royal Egyptian brothers is challenged when their chosen responsibilities set them at odds, with extraordinary consequences.

title: The Ten Commandments: The Musical

overview: The tale of two brothers, Moses and Ramses: united by love, divided by destiny, they lead their two nations in an epic struggle between slavery and liberty. The Hebrews were slaves in Egypt 3,300 years ago. When Moses, a Hebrew baby raised as a brother to the Egyptian prince, learned of his true origins, he was thrust into a new life, leading his people to freedom.

title: Dead Girl

overview: Ari Rose is a failing actor who cannot distinguish between reality and fantasy. He first dreams about and then meets in real life a mysterious woman named Helen. A seemingly mutual obsession ensues, but gradually spirals downward into a web of desire and misperception.

title: Columbus Day

overview: A thief tries to fix the damage done during the biggest heist of his career.

title: Have Dreams, Will Travel

overview: West Texas, in the 1960's. A tale of two 12-year-olds who embark on an adventure to find new parents in order to escape their unhappy and emotionally unsatisfying family life.

title: Real Genius

overview: When teenage geniuses Mitch Taylor and Chris Knight, working on an advanced laser project, learn that the military wants to use it as a weapon, they decide to thwart the plan.

title: American Meth

overview: Actor Val Kilmer narrates this powerful film exploring the methamphetamine epidemic that's ravaged blue-collar America. Putting a human face on the problem, filmmaker Justin Hunt reveals the damage being done by this rural drug of choice, as well as the steps being taken by communities across the nation to wipe out the scourge. From Wyoming to New Mexico, Montana and Oregon, American Meth paints a picture of both devastation and hope.

title: At First Sight

overview: A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.

title: Stateside

overview: The film follows a rebellious teenager on leave from the Marines who falls in love with a female musician. The relationship is threatened when she develops a mental illness...

title: American Cowslip

overview: In Blythe, California, a small town in the remote California desert, Ethan Inglebrink is an eccentric, agoraphobic heroin addict who is obsessed with his garden. This dark comedy follows the last days of Ethan's life as he struggles to find purpose at a time when it might be too late to even matter.

title: MacGruber

overview: Ex-special operative MacGruber is called back into action to take down his archenemy, Dieter Von Cunth, who's in possession of a nuclear warhead and bent on destroying Washington, DC.

title: Mindhunters

overview: Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst.  Based very loosely on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.

title: Bloodworth

overview: E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - after forty years of roaming. The wife he walked out on has withered and faded, his three sons are grown and angry. Warren is a womanizing alcoholic, Boyd is driven by jealousy to hunt down his wife and her lover, and Brady puts hexes on his enemies from his mamma's porch. Only Fleming, the old man's grandson, treats him with the respect his age commands, and sees past all the hatred to realize the way it can poison a man's soul. It is ultimately the love of Raven Lee, a sloe-eyed beauty from another town, that gives Fleming the courage to reject this family curse.

title: Kill the Irishman

overview: Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob.

title: Streets of Blood

overview: A police officer's partner has died during Hurricane Katrina, but he later discovers that his partner may have been murdered. An investigation follows, taking the officer and his new partner into the depths of the criminal underworld.

title: 5 Days of War

overview: An American journalist and his cameraman are caught in the combat zone during the first Russian airstrikes against Georgia. Rescuing Tatia, a young Georgian schoolteacher separated from her family during the attack, the two reporters agree to help reunite her with her family in exchange for serving as their interpreter. As the three attempt to escape to safety, they witness--and document--the devastation from the full-scale crossfire and cold-blooded murder of innocent civilians.

title: Joe the King

overview: A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother.

title: Blood Out

overview: When big city detectives refuse to further investigate his kid brother's gang related murder, small town Sheriff Michael Spencer drops the badge and goes undercover to find his brother's killer and avenge his death.

title: Willow: Behind the Magic

overview: Featuring the breakout stars from the series and returning legends, this documentary takes viewers behind the scenes for an in-depth look at the making of the hit original series.

character: Self / Madmartigan (archive footage) (uncredited)

title: 7 Below

overview: A group of strangers is trapped in a time warp house where a terrible event transpired exactly 100 years prior.

title: Twixt

overview: A washed-up horror novelist arrives in a sleepy town on a book tour, only to stumble into a string of eerie murders. Haunted by dreams of a ghostly girl named V and guided by the spirit of Edgar Allan Poe, he’s drawn into a nightmarish world where fiction and reality blur—and the story he’s chasing leads back to his own buried guilt.

title: Wings of Courage

overview: In 1930 South America, a small group of French pilots struggle to prove they can offer a reliable airmail service over the Andes. When one of the young pilots crashes on such a flight, he has to try and get back to civilization on foot. Back home, his wife and colleagues start to fear the worst.

title: The Fourth Dimension

overview: Created under a 'manifesto' whose directives would make Lars von Trier shudder, an anthology is presented that might look on paper like an exercise in forced hipness. Fortunately, its creators – Harmony Korine (USA), Alexsei Fedorchenko (Russia) and Jan Kwiecinski (Poland) – prove innovative and just insane enough to make an exhilarating experiment.

character: Val Kilmer (segment "The Lotus Community Workshop")

title: Wyatt Earp's Revenge

overview: Wyatt Earp is approached by a journalist for an interview about how he became a famous sheriff. Earp told the story of how he was a fearless U.S. Marshall. If 27-year old Wyatt Earp comes out that his first girlfriend Dora Hand was murdered. Together with his friend Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, Bill Tilghman and Charlie Bassett he goes hunting for the perpetrator ...

title: Breathless

overview: Lorna is a strong-willed Texas woman who’s had enough of her untrustworthy husband Dale’s criminal acts and lack of husbandry. Fed up, she enlists the help of her old friend, Tiny, to help her figure out what to do with Dale after his latest double-cross involving the theft of $100,000 from a bank.

title: The Seventh Man

overview: The story chronicles 2 years in the life of the best 6-man football team in Texas, the Panther Creek Panthers.

title: Planes

overview: Dusty is a cropdusting plane who dreams of competing in a famous aerial race. The problem? He is hopelessly afraid of heights. With the support of his mentor Skipper and a host of new friends, Dusty sets off to make his dreams come true.

title: Deep in the Heart

overview: An alcoholic man refocuses himself on putting kids through college via 4H and FFA scholarship donations. Guiding him is a spiritual figure he calls "The Bearded Man".

title: Palo Alto

overview: A lack of parental guidance encourages teens in an affluent California town to rebel with substance abuse and casual sex.

title: Riddle

overview: Holly & Nathan Teller live in a small town in Pennsylvania. Holly is on the cheerleading team and has a close relationship with her younger brother Nathan, who is subjected to bullying at school.  Nathan is taken for a car ride one day by the bullies, whose intent about what they are going to do with Nathan is not clear. He gives them the slip, but disappears and is still missing after three years.

title: Standing Up

overview: Based on one of the most beloved Young Adult novels of all time: Two kids are stripped naked and left together on an island in a lake - victims of a vicious summer camp prank; But rather than have to return to camp and face the humiliation, they decide to take off, on the run together. What follows is a three day odyssey of discovery and self-discovery.

title: Gun

overview: The Detroit Police launches a full-scale war against gun runners with the cooperation of the Feds and target a criminal named Rich. When a gun exchange goes bad and Rich’s old friend Angel, steps up big time and saves his life, they form a bond that makes his supplier and lover, Gabriella paranoid. But there is a snitch in the group and Gabriella’s biggest deal goes bad only to have an even bigger secret revealed, one that rocks Rich to his core.

title: One Too Many

overview: Four high school friends find their lives changed forever when one of the friends drives drunk with devastating results.

title: Riddle Me This: Why Is Batman Forever?

overview: How a new director and cast created a new version of Gotham's classic good and bad guys.

title: Danger Zone: The Making of Top Gun

overview: A comprehensive 6-part documentary on the making of "Top Gun" featuring all-new interviews with the cast and crew. Available on Disc 2 of the "Top Gun" 2-Disc Special Collector's Edition DVD.

title: Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn

overview: Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.

title: Animals

overview: A ghostly voice sings about transience while the camera glides past closed curtains, capturing the expressive, lived-in face of a dozing Val Kilmer. Rick Alverson’s disconcerting stroboscopic video editing makes the dozing body twitch. The inner turmoil of a troubled soul and restless memories rise to the surface.

title: Mon Clown

overview: Documentary from French TV channel Canal+ about Marion Cotillard's road to the Oscar for her performance as French singer Édith Piaf in the 2007 film 'La Vie en Rose', also featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the film.

title: Trudell

overview: A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances, and politics.

title: Knight Rider

overview: When a group of ruthless mercenaries kill a reclusive scientist, his creation, a new model of artificially intelligent supercar, escapes to find his daughter and recruit a ex-soldier to thwart them. Pilot for the reboot of the television series Knight Rider.

title: Dead Man's Bounty

overview: A mysterious loner rides into a small town carrying the body of a sought-after outlaw. But after he gambles his bounty away in a card game with the sheriff, he must devise a scheme to reclaim the dead man.

title: Song to Song

overview: In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye and BV, and music mogul Cook and the waitress whom he ensnares — chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of seduction and betrayal.

title: The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

overview: Behind the scenes documentary for Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. Features interviews and on-set footage.

original_title: The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

title: The Snowman

overview: Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.

title: The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains

overview: The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.

title: Billy the Kid

overview: Gore Vidal's historical novel is brought to life in this television production of Turner Network Television's Billy the Kid.

title: Cinema Twain

overview: Val Kilmer, master of reinvention, becomes Mark Twain, in a funny, moving, contemporary and reflective performance, based on the life of the man who was Samuel Clemens and on his writings as Mark Twain: his thoughts on politics, his family, his faith and God… Twain shows the greatness of his incomparable wit.

title: George and the Dragon

overview: In 12th century England, the handsome and noble knight, George, has left the Crusades behind to follow his dream of a peaceful life on his own piece of land. However, in order to obtain his land from the ruling King Edgaar, he must help find the King's missing daughter, Princess Lunna, a quest which sees George drawn into an unexpected battle with the kingdom's last surviving dragon.

title: Top Gun: Maverick

overview: After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.

title: Bounty Hunters

overview: The first ever documentary film to give the viewer the real inside story on the controversial profession of Bounty Hunting. Narrated by Val Kilmer, the film follows the life of "World Famous Bounty hunter" Leonard Padilla and Robert Dick.

title: The Super

overview: A man becomes the superintendent of a large New York City apartment building where people mysteriously go missing.

title: A Century of Science Fiction

overview: American Documentary, narrated by Christopher Lee

title: Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

overview: Jay and Silent Bob embark on a cross-country mission to stop Hollywood from rebooting a film based on their comic book characters Bluntman and Chronic.

title: The Birthday Cake

overview: On the 10th anniversary of his father's death, Giovanni reluctantly accepts the task of bringing a cake to the home of his uncle, a mob boss, for a celebration. Just two hours into the night, Gio's life is forever changed.

title: 1st Born

overview: Tucker and Hamid are going to be grandfathers for the first time, but only if they can come together long enough to save their first-born grandchild.

title: A Soldier's Revenge

overview: Haunted by wartime horrors, Civil War soldier-turned-bounty-hunter Frank Connor spends his time post-war polishing off two things: whiskey and fugitives. When two desperate children arrive on his doorstep and enlist his help to find their missing mother, Frank must face his past in order to take down the notorious Major Briggs, with whom he has a score all his own to settle.

title: Paydirt

overview: A parolee teams up with his old crew determined to find a buried bag of cash stolen a decade ago from a DEA bust gone bad, while being tracked by a retired Sheriff.

title: Willow: The Making of an Adventure

overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of the film Willow (1988). Included are interviews with cast and crew and scenes of the actual filming of the production itself.

title: Twixt: A Documentary

overview: The making of Francis Ford Coppola's "Twixt," directed by his granddaughter Gia.

title: The Doors: The Road of Excess

overview: Interviews with friends of the late Jim Morrison and several people involved with the making of the film The Doors (1991) by Oliver Stone, delving into what Morrison meant to everyone including themselves.

title: The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen

overview: The making of The Prince of Egypt (1998).

original_title: The Prince of Egypt: From Dream to Screen

title: Val

overview: For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.

title: Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

overview: The story of the insane scandals related to the remake of “Island of Dr. Moreau” —originally a novel by H. G. Wells—, which was brought to the big screen in 1996. How director Richard Stanley spent four years developing the project just to find an abrupt end to his work while leading actor Marlon Brando pulled the strings in the shadows. Now for the first time, the living key players recount what really happened and why it all went so spectacularly wrong.

original_title: Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau

title: Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend

overview: Who has ever compared Reservoir Dogs? What are “Open Road” and “New World Disorder”? Why is Harvey Keitel a fairy and how did we all almost become diehard fans of Paul Calderon? Here’s a story about Quentin Tarantino. The director who needs no introduction.

original_title: Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend

title: The Lotus Community Workshop

overview: A former actor-turned-self-help guru holds a motivational workshop in a skating rink, lives in a mansion and rides BMX bikes with his girlfriend.

title: The Roadie

overview: Tenacious D search for a new roadie when they find one of the most amazing Roadies that has ever toured the roads (Danny McBride)

title: Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight

overview: A 6 part documentary of making of Batman franchise.

original_title: Shadows of the Bat: The Cinematic Saga of the Dark Knight

title: The Making of 'Heat'

overview: Behind the scenes documentary on the classic Michael Mann heist film.

title: Unconquered: Allan Houser and the Legacy of One Apache Family

overview: In decades past, Native American artists who wanted to sell to mainstream collectors had little choice but to create predictable, Hollywood-style western scenes. Then came a generation of painters and sculptors led by Allan Houser (or Haozous), a Chiricahua Apache artist with no interest in stereotyped imagery and a belief that his own rich heritage was compatible with modernist ideas and techniques. Narrated by actor Val Kilmer and originally commissioned as part of an exhibit of Houser’s work at the Oklahoma History Center, this program depicts the artist’s tribal ancestry, his rise to regional and national acclaim, and the continuing success of his sons as they expand upon and depart from their father’s achievements. Key works are documented, as is Houser’s tenure at the Santa Fe–based Institute of American Indian Arts.

original_title: Unconquered: Allan Houser and the Legacy of One Apache Family

title: Africa Unbottled

overview: Hosted by Val Kilmer, the documentary follows playwright Nicholas Ellenbogen as he travels to remote communities in six different African countries. In each community, the residents have taken an holistic and somewhat controversial approach to managed wildlife care.

title: Three Days

overview: Three Days is a feature film exploring the on-and-off-tour lives of Jane's Addiction. Set predominately on their 1997 'Relapse Tour', this docu-drama weaves audiences throughout the band's legacy in a colorful, fast-paced orgy of gritty backstage drama and rare musical performances

title: The Making of 'Tombstone'

overview: A Documentary covering the making of the 1993 Western 'Tombstone' featuring cast and crew

title: Val

title: Cinema Twain

title: Cinema Twain

title: Cinema Twain

title: Africa Unbottled

title: Twixt

title: Val

title: The Ghost and the Darkness

title: Top Secret!

title: Real Genius

title: Heat

title: True Romance

title: Batman Forever

title: Heat

title: The Real McCoy

title: The Saint

title: Top Gun

title: The Doors

title: Willow

title: The Ghost and the Darkness

title: Alexander

title: The Steam Experiment

title: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

title: Spartan

title: Delgo

title: Wonderland

title: Hard Cash

title: Double Identity

title: Hardwired

title: The Murders in the Rue Morgue

title: Déjà Vu

title: The Salton Sea

title: The Thaw

title: Kill Me Again

title: Champion

title: Blind Horizon

title: Masked and Anonymous

title: Tombstone

title: Played

title: 2:22

title: Top Secret!

title: The Missing

title: Red Planet

title: The Love Guru

title: Thunderheart

title: The Traveler

title: The Island of Dr. Moreau

title: Moscow Zero

title: 10th & Wolf

title: Felon

title: Conspiracy

title: Pollock

title: The Prince of Egypt

title: The Ten Commandments: The Musical

title: Dead Girl

title: Columbus Day

title: Have Dreams, Will Travel

title: Real Genius

title: American Meth

title: At First Sight

title: Stateside

title: American Cowslip

title: MacGruber

title: Mindhunters

title: Bloodworth

title: Kill the Irishman

title: Streets of Blood

title: 5 Days of War

title: Joe the King

title: Blood Out

title: Willow: Behind the Magic

title: 7 Below

title: Twixt

title: Wings of Courage

title: The Fourth Dimension

title: Wyatt Earp's Revenge

title: Breathless

title: The Seventh Man

title: Planes

title: Deep in the Heart

title: Palo Alto

title: Riddle

title: Standing Up

title: Gun

title: One Too Many

title: Riddle Me This: Why Is Batman Forever?

title: Danger Zone: The Making of Top Gun

title: Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn

title: Animals

title: Mon Clown

title: Trudell

title: Knight Rider

title: Dead Man's Bounty

title: Song to Song

title: The Snowman

title: The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains

title: Billy the Kid

title: Cinema Twain

title: George and the Dragon

title: Top Gun: Maverick

title: Bounty Hunters

title: The Super

title: A Century of Science Fiction

title: Jay and Silent Bob Reboot

title: The Birthday Cake

title: 1st Born

title: A Soldier's Revenge

title: Paydirt

title: Willow: The Making of an Adventure

title: Twixt: A Documentary

title: The Doors: The Road of Excess

title: Val

title: The Lotus Community Workshop

title: The Roadie

title: The Making of 'Heat'

title: Africa Unbottled

title: Three Days

title: The Making of 'Tombstone'

title: Val

title: Cinema Twain

title: Cinema Twain

title: Cinema Twain

title: Africa Unbottled

title: Twixt

title: Val