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- Full Name: Val Edward Kilmer
- Date of Birth: December 31, 1959
- Parents: Gladys & Eugene Kilmer
- Siblings: (brothers) Mark & Wesley
- Height: Approximately 6'
- Eyes: Green
- Hair: Dark Blonde
- Lucasfilm - Spring, 1988
- Splice - July, 1988
- Exposure - December, 1990
- Interview - December, 1990
- Entertainment Weekly - March 1, 1991
- Detour - 1992
- Entertainment Weekly - May, 1995
- Details - June, 1995
- Movieline - June, 1995
- Parade - July 9, 1995
- Juice - August, 1995
- Premiere (British Edition) - August 1995
- British Premiere - August, 1995
- Directions - August, 1996
- Premiere - April, 1997
- Movie - April, 1997
- Tribute - April, 1997
- Impact - June, 1997
- Architectural Digest - April, 1998
- Las Vegas Weekly - January 20, 1999
- Valley - February, 1999
- Icon - February, 1999
- Cowboys & Country - Summer, 1999
- Polo - October, 1999
- Volunteers with Dr. Kathleen Ramsay at The Wildlife Center in Santa Fe, NM
- Directed and produced fund raising film for Native American Preparatory School in Rowe, NM
- Supports Habitat for Humanity
- Supports Lead or Leave
- Participated in Americares Relief Mission to Baghdad, Iraq (1998)
- Nuclear Free Award Committee
"Suffering always needs hearing. It is important to make a distinction between what the giving effort is, humanitarian effort is, and politics."
Special things Val has done for movie roles:
- THUNDERHEART (1992): Val ironed his own shirts to help him get inside the skin of a FBI agent.
- TOMBSTONE (1993): Val learned to play the piano and practiced a Chopin nocturne every day for four months for just ninety seconds of screen time.
- HEAT (1995): Val flew to Folsom prison for half a day to get the prison feel for his character.
- AT FIRST SIGHT (1999): Val learned to ice skate, to give massages and he extensively explored the feeling of being blind by inserting contacts that rendered him totally blind and then going out on the streets of N.Y.C.
- Robert Elliot Burns, THE MAN WHO BROKE 1000 CHAINS (1987)
- William Bonney, BILLY THE KID (1989)
- Jim Morrison, THE DOORS (1991)
- John Henry (Doc) Holliday. TOMBSTONE (1993)
- Jean Mermoz, WINGS OF COURAGE (1995)
- John Patterson, THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS (1996)
- Moses, THE PRINCE OF EGYPT (1998)
- Virgil Adamson, AT FIRST SIGHT (1999)
- Bob Henry, JOE THE KING (1999)
- DUNE
- BLUE VELVET
- FLATLINERS
- POINT BREAK
- BACKDRAFT
- SLIVER
- IN THE LINE OF FIRE
- DIRTY DANCING
- SOMETHING WILD
- THE OUTSIDERS
- CRIMSON TIDE
- GOOD FELLAS
- PHILADELPHIA
- INDECENT PROPOSAL
Other credits:
- JOURNEY TO VICTORY: documentary on the nuclear issue
- Producer/narrator of AFRICA UNBOTTLED about environmental crisis in Africa
- co-writer of the song "Love is the Language" with high school friends the Williams Brothers' on their 1993 release "Harmony Hotel" album.