Patrick Swayze Died

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Patrick Swayze died at 57

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Patrick Swayze, a popular star of Dirty Dancing and Ghost, the hunky actor who danced his way into moviegoers’ hearts and and then broke them with “Ghost”, died last Monday after his long battle with pancreatic cancer.

Annett Wolf, his publicist said “Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months”. Swayze died in Los Angeles.

Patrick Swayze kept working despite the diagnosis, putting together a memoir with his wife and shooting “The Beast,” an A&E drama series for which he had already made the pilot.

Swayze said while making “The Beast”, he opted not to use painkilling drugs because they would have taken the edge off his performance. The show drew a respectable 1.3 million viewers when the 13 episodes ran in 2009, but A&E said it had reluctantly decided not to renew it for a second season.

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Some reports gave him only weeks to live when he first went public with the illness, but his doctor said his situation was “considerably more optimistic” than that. Swayze acknowledged that time might be running out given the grim nature of the disease.

In early 2009, Swayze told ABC’s Barbara Walters “I’d say five years is pretty wishful thinking”. “Two years seems likely if you’re going to believe statistics. I want to last until they find a cure, which means I’d better get a fire under it.”

“I have always had a special place in my heart for Patrick. While I was fortunate enough to work with him in three films, it was our passion for horses that forged a friendship between us that I treasure to this day. Not only did we lose a fine actor today, I lost my older ‘Outsiders’ brother,” said C. Thomas Howell, who costarred with Swayze in “The Outsiders,” “Grandview U.S.A.” and “Red Dawn”.

Read Patrick Swayze Biography through wikipedia.org

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Patrick Swayze in “Dirty Dancing”