He underwent radiotherapy and chemotherapy, as well as a tracheostomy, which damaged his vocal cords. Kilmer was also known for playing Batman in 1995’s Batman Forever and starred in a number of ...

Val Kilmer's cause of death was pneumonia, his daughter told The New York Times. Kilmer received a throat cancer diagnosis a decade ago and underwent a tracheotomy. The tracheotomy affected his ...

Kilmer eventually recovered following his 2014 diagnosis, thanks to a combination of radiation, chemotherapy and a tracheostomy that ultimately damaged his speaking voice. "Now that it's more ...

After Val Kilmer's tracheostomy permanently damaged his vocal cords, the actor had to find a different outlet to channel his creativity. Of course, a huge part of acting is having the ability to speak ...

After the procedure, Kilmer lived the rest of his life with a tracheostomy tube, or trach, going through the hole in his neck to his trachea to help him breathe. Kilmer opened up about throat cancer ...

While the family didn’t specify if his pneumonia was related to his throat-cancer battle, undergoing a tracheostomy, a procedure where a tube is inserted into the trachea, as Kilmer did ...

Treatments of radiation, chemotherapy and a tracheostomy permanently damaged his voice. Yes, Val Kilmer married Joanne Whalley in 1988 after acting together in the movie, "Willow". The pair ...