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Val Kilmer Was Born to Play Jim Morrison
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.
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Doors guitarist looks back at Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison, band's 60th anniversary
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 ...
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The Doors' Robby Krieger Recalls Thinking the Late Val Kilmer Didn't Look Like Jim Morrison When He Landed Biopic Role
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 ...
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Val Kilmer, Actor Who Starred in ‘Top Gun’ and ‘The Doors,’ Dead at 65
“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.
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Val Kilmer, Actor Revered for Playing Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65
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 ...
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The Doors' Robby Krieger Recalls Thinking the Late Val Kilmer Didn't Look Like Jim Morrison When He Landed Biopic Role
From Left: Robby Krieger in March 2023; and Val Kilmer in July 2019 ...