At 17, Kilmer was once the youngest to be accepted into the prestigious art college ... could accurately reflect the spectacle that was Jim Morrison’s life. Whether or not Stone’s film ...

The chaos on set ... of dying from tuberculosis. To play Morrison, he wore leather pants all the time, asked castmates and crew to only refer to him as Jim Morrison and blasted The Doors for ...

But we need to honor what might be his most transformative performance, as Jim Morrison in The Doors. Jimbo, the most ridiculously pretentious egomaniac in rock-star history, seemed so excessive ...

Robby Krieger, guitarist for the legendary '60s band The Doors, had come to meet Val Kilmer, a young actor who had landed the plum if difficult role of Jim Morrison, the band's lead singer ...

Val Kilmer, film star who played Batman and Jim Morrison, passes away at 65 On the screen, he was both charismatic and curiosity-piquing, an actor who didn’t let his characters give emotional ...

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Val Kilmer, the charisma-oozing leading man who lost himself portraying such tormented, self-loathing characters as Jim Morrison, gunslinger Doc Holliday and Batman ...

Kilmer’s dedication to his craft was undeniable during his acclaimed portrayal of Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone’s 1991 biopic The Doors. To audition for the film, the actor put together an ...