India, April 2 -- Actor Val Kilmer, known for his performances in Hollywood films like Top Gun and The Doors, died on April 1. He was 65. The actor was particularly noted for using method acting techniques, wherein he would immerse himself with the state of the character he was playing in a film. (Also read: Val Kilmer, Batman Forever and Top Gun star, dies at 65 after long battle with cancer)

The actor starred in the 1993 American Western film Tombstone, in which he played the hard-drinking Doc Holliday. Bloomberg reported how in preparation for the role, the actor "filled his bed with ice for the final scene to mimic the feeling of dying from tuberculosis."

Tombstone also starred Kurt Russell, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, ...