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

Also memorable: Val Kilmer in one of his best onscreen performances as Doc Holliday, alcoholic and riddled with tuberculosis, ...

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 ...