David Roy picks five of his favourite performances by the late actor, who passed away earlier today at the age of 65

Val Kilmer was an actor who had a career spanning more than three decades. The actor started out in the mid-1980s with comedy films and later did films of different genres.

Val Kilmer, who died at 65 on Tuesday, donned Batman’s cape, starred as a gunslinger, flew supersonic fighter jets in “Top Gun” and held the screen as a bumbling singer in a slapstick comedy about the Cold War.

Val Kilmer, star of Heat, Top Gun, The Doors, Batman Forever, and countless other beloved films, has passed away at the age of 65.

After news of Val Kilmer's death, Variety looks back at his career in photos, from "Top Gun" to "Batman Forever" and more.

Val Kilmer, who has died at the age of 65, was an underrated actor. He had extraordinary range: excelling in comedies, westerns, crime dramas, musical biopics and action-adventures films alike. And perhaps his best performance combined his skills as a stage actor with a fine singing voice,

Val Kilmer, who starred in films such as "Top Gun," "The Doors," and "Batman Forever" while earning a reputation as a Hollywood bad boy for his intensity and temperament, has died, the New York Times reported.

Val Kilmer dies at 65

Val Kilmer, a movie star in the 1980s and ‘90s who played everything from Batman to Doc Holliday, died on Tuesday, according to his daughter Mercedes Kilmer, who released a statement to the New York Times.