There is no Batman," he once said.Val Kilmer, who died of pneumonia at 65 on Tuesday, April 2, is one of the handful of Hollywood actors over the decades to have portrayed Batman on the big screen. But unlike many stars who have played Gotham's superhero,

The actor took only one turn in the famous batsuit. That film, “Batman Forever,” couldn’t be a more representative artifact of its era.

Val Kilmer, who played Bruce Wayne in “Batman Forever,” channeled Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone’s “The Doors” and starred as a tubercular Doc Holliday in “Tombstone,” died Tuesday in Los Angeles. His daughter Mercedes told The New York Times the cause was pneumonia.