Val Kilmer Gave Us the Best Gunfight of the Modern Western Era The face-off between Kilmer's Doc Holliday and Michael Biehn's Johnny Ringo in 1993's Tombstone captured the nervy emotion of a ...

Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday in 'Tombstone' Holliday has been played by at least 30 actors in TV and film history. Some notable names to take on the role include Kirk Douglas, Marin Landau, Jason ...

In fact, the real-life Doc Holliday died from only six years after the famed Gunfight at the O.K. Corral at only 36 years old. This is exactly why Doc is willing to die in a blaze of glory in a ...

Doc Holliday was a real person who was notorious long before Tombstone, but Val Kilmer turned him into a modern-day legend. Doc is just as classic of a Western gunslinger as Clint Eastwood's Man ...

Admirers of John “Doc” Holliday are mourning the actor, Val Kilmer, and saluting his portrayal of the dentist and gambler in the 1993 film, “Tombstone.” For Holliday fans, nobody else can ever embody ...

While Kilmer’s performance is cited as being one of his best, Willem Dafoe was almost cast as Doc Holliday in Tombstone. Val Kilmer Almost Didn’t Play Doc Holliday ...

Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp and Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in the 1993 movie “Tombstone.” ©Buena Vista Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection He gifted Kilmer a burial plot in Boot Hill ...

(Image credit: Hollywood Pictures) Doc Holliday Is Val Kilmer's Ultimate Role Serving as the show-stealing co-lead in the already stacked Tombstone ensemble is Val Kilmer as John “Doc ...

Val Kilmer was not a movie star. That’s just what we called him. The late actor definitely starred in a lot of movies. Big movies, the kinds built around big names, sex appeal, and action, which ...

We see Kilmer rehearsing to play the title role in “Hamlet” shortly before getting the call to play second fiddle, however memorably, to Tom Cruise in Tony Scott’s 1986 smash hit “Top Gun.” ...