To read more of GQ's coverage of Val Kilmer through the years, click here. Val Kilmer was all mesmerizing contrasts. His feminine features—shimmering green eyes, full lips, hair that even when shorn into proto-bro spikes had sheen and sway—crowned a jaw and a body that might have belonged to a San Fernando Valley bully.

Val Kilmer has died at 65. During his career he was a leading man and a character actor. These are his five best performances, including "Tombstone."

Here are some of his best and most memorable roles, and where to watch them. There’s a bit of a Sliding Doors situation in which Kilmer might have been part of that young, promising cast of Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Outsiders” had he not had commitments in the theater — but Kilmer’s first major starring role would ultimately come in Jim Abrahams,