The American actor died on 1is april. If pneumonia won, the actor suffered from multiple health complications.
More than a week after the death of an American actor Val Kilmer at the age of 65, the exact causes of his death were made public this week by the health authorities of Los Angeles. If pneumonia is the immediate cause of his death, other medical complications have been identified.
According to the death certificate obtained by the American site TMZseveral medical complications have been identified as underlying factors of the death of the actor. Among them are acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, chronic respiratory failure, as well as an epidermoid carcinoma from the base of the language, cancer against which the actor has been fighting for several years.
Malnutrition problems
His health had already been strongly weakened by this fight, in particular by a tracheotomy which had forced it to use a probe to express themselves. Other elements to which has had access TMZ report malnutrition and the presence of a tracheocutaneous fistula, a sign of a general weakening of its organization.
In 2021, the documentary Val Trained his career in Hollywood until the announcement of his cancer, who had deprived him of his voice. Revealed in the 1980s, Val Kilmer quickly established itself as one of the significant faces of American cinema. He accesses notoriety with Top Gun (1986), where he played the Iceman driver against Tom Cruise, before shining in The Doors (1991), where he delivered a inhabited performance in the role of Jim Morrison. In turn masked vigilante in Batman Forever (1995), robbers tormented in Heat by Michael Mann or mystical knight in WillowKilmer explores various registers, between action films, psychological dramas and independent works.