Val Kilmer’s Tombstone Performance Broke A Western Rule John Wayne & Clint Eastwood Both Followed

Val Kilmer’s performance aside, Doc Holliday in Tombstone is arguably one of the greatest antiheroes in Western film history. The Wild West setting naturally provides fertile ground for complex, morally gray characters, and actors like John Wayne and Clint Eastwood famously played many of them. While Wayne and Eastwood established a certain type of Western antihero, Kilmer’s Doc Holliday was a truly unique and groundbreaking take on the archetype.








