Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into moviegoersβ hearts with βDirty Dancingβ and then broke them with βGhost,β died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.
βPatrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months,β his publicist, Annett Wolf, said in a statement Monday evening. Swayze died in Los Angeles, Wolf said, but she declined to give further details.
Dirty Dancing is still one of my favorite movies. 