as Jim Morrison in The Doors. Jimbo, the most ridiculously pretentious egomaniac in rock-star history, seemed so excessive that no actor could play him, but Val Kilmer was up to the task.

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 ...

revealing he wasn't so sure about him being cast as their frontman in Oliver Stone's 1991 movie The Doors guitarist Robby Krieger said he didn't think the late Val Kilmer looked like Jim Morrison ...

“Working with Val Kilmer and watching him transform himself into Jim Morrison was life-altering for me as an actor,” says Frank Whaley, who played Doors guitarist Robby Krieger in the film.

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Val Kilmer, the charisma-oozing leading man who lost himself portraying such tormented, self-loathing characters as Jim Morrison ... Stone‘s The Doors (1991 ...

which peaked with the 1991 Oliver Stone film “The Doors,” in which Val Kilmer, who died in April, played Morrison. London artist Sam Burcher recently returned to the now more subdued grave ...

Police have found a bust of Jim Morrison that was stolen nearly four decades ago from the Paris grave that has long been a ...