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

Wikimedia CommonsDoc Holliday in Tombstone, Arizona circa 1882. When Doc Holliday died in 1887 at the age of 36, his friend Wyatt Earp solemnly and succinctly summed up his fallen comrade’s ...

LOS ANGELES — Actor Val Kilmer, who played Iceman in “ Top Gun ” and starred in films as Batman, singer Jim Morrison and ...

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 ...