Swayze had been starring in US TV show “The Beast” since his diagnosis and he had also planned to write a memoir with his wife, Lisa Niemi, a dancer and actress. And I expect it to be a long hard battle, one that I'm gonna' win according to certain rules - and the rules that the cancer isn't going away." But, he added he was just “at the beginning of my battle. In January 2008, Swayze was diagnosed with advanced stage-four pancreatic cancer, with medical experts giving him only a one percent chance of surviving longer than five years.ĭays later, in an interview with ABC News’ Barbara Walters, Swayze admitted with characteristic candour that he was “going through hell”. “There is a saying about Patrick Swayze that he danced his way to viewers’ hearts with ‘Dirty Dancing’ and broke them with ‘Ghost’,” said FRANCE 24’s Los Angeles correspondent Gallagher Fenwick. The scene of Swayze and his co-star Demi Moore moulding pottery together with the Righteous Brothers hit “Unchained Melody” crooning in the backdrop, lives as one of cinema’s most romantic moments. Three years later, he played the role of a murdered man who, even in the afterlife, refused to abandon his wife until he was reassured of her safety in “Ghost”.
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Swayze shot to international fame with his 1987 hit “Dirty Dancing” when the explosive combination of his hunky physique and feline movements set to the Oscar-winning tune “Time of my Life” propelled a low budget movie into one of the year’s highest-grossing films. He passed away peacefully in his Los Angeles home with his family at his side, said Wolf said in a statement. The 57-year-old Texas-born actor died after suffering complications from the illness, according to his publicist Annett Wolf. Hollywood star Patrick Swayze, who captivated audiences with his smouldering, muscular dancing style in “Dirty Dancing” and revealed his sensitive, defiant side in “Ghost” died late on Monday after a 20-month battle against pancreatic cancer.
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