Alice Holliday’s death ended his childhood in more ways than one. Doc Holliday had been close with his mother and was devastated after her death. To make matters worse, his father shrugged off ...

I’m your Huckleberry,’ he said in an echo of the figure from Mark Twain who inspired him throughout his career.

In 1993’s Tombstone, Kilmer delivered one of the most indelible performances in the genre’s history as the tubercular dentist and gambler John Henry “Doc” Holliday. Beset by coughing fits ...

Val Kilmer, the actor who played Bruce Wayne in Batman Forever, Doc Holliday in Tombstone and ... From a traumatic childhood to early fame, tragic health problems to an inspiring comeback, we ...