American actor Val Kilmer has died of pneumonia at the age of 65, leaving behind him a $3.7 billion filmography that made him one of Hollywood’s most successful stars.
His acting career began when, at the age of just 17, he became the youngest person to be accepted into the prestigious Juilliard School and he quickly found success on stage, starring in a production of The Slab Boys alongside Kevin Bacon and Sean Penn.
His big screen break came in spy comedy Top Secret!, but global stardom came in 1986 when he starred as ‘Iceman’ alongside Tom Cruise in Top Gun - a role he would later return to in Top Gun: Maverick.
His long career saw him star in a sting of blockbusters which grossed over $3.7 billion including Willow, The Doors, Tombstone, True Romance, Heat, Batman Forever, The Saint and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
Here are his 10 most critically-acclaimed films - according to reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.
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5. Thunderheart (1992)
Val Kilmer starts as FBI Agent Ray Levoi in Michael Apted's 1992 film Thunderheart, which has a 90 per cent rating. The Neo-Western mystery film is a fictional portrayal of events relating to the Wounded Knee incident in 1973, when followers of the American Indian Movement seized the South Dakota town of Wounded Knee in protest against federal government policy regarding Native Americans. | Contributed
6. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Black comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang saw Kilmer star alongside Robert Downey Jr. who plays a thief from New York who ends up in Los Angeles investigating a murder. Shane Black's film has a fresh 86 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. | Contributed
7. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
Werner Herzog's unhinged black comedy Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans sees Kilmer play Detective Stevie Pruit, the partner of Nicolas Cage's titular bad cop in the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina. It has positive critical rating of 86 per cent. | Contributed
8. Heat (1995)
Famous for being the first time Al Pacino and Robert De Niro appeared on screen together, Heat, directed by Michael Mann, warrants an 83 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It follows the relationship between a police detective (Pacino) and a career thief (De Niro), with Val Kilmer in a supporting role as the thief's right hand man Chris Shiherlis. | Contributed