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September 15, 2009
Patrick Swayze Dies
Actor Patrick Swayze died peacefully yesterday, surrounded by his family. The actor who gave millions pleasure in the movies Dirty Dancing and Ghost, had "Pancreatic Cancer".
Swayze first found fame in the early 1980s in the adaptation of a teen novel, S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders. A trained dancer, Swayze became a cinema heartthrob and Golden Globe award nominee with 1987's Dirty Dancing and reached the height of his fame and acclaim three years later in the romantic film Ghost.
He worked steadily in films over the next two decades, transitioning into smaller character roles.
Swayze first announced his illness in March 2008. Pancreatic cancer is a particularly deadly form of cancer; fewer than five percent of people diagnosed with it survive five years.
Swayze worked long after his diagnosis, starring in a television program called The Beast that ran for one season in 2008 and 2009.