Actor Patrick Swayze poses at the Portrait Studio during the AFI Fest 2005 presented by Audi at the Arclight Theatre on November 5, 2005 in Hollywood, California. (November 4, 2005 - Photo by Mark Mainz/Getty Images North America)
Actor Patrick Swayze who starred in “Dirty Dancing,” “Point Break” and “Ghost” died on Monday, September 14, 2009 after 20 months of battling with pancreatic cancer. He was 57 years old.
“Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months,” his representative said in a statement.
He was also a singer-songwriter. He also acted Orry Main in the “North and South” television miniseries and portrayed Sam Wheat in the movie “Ghost.”
Swayze was listed by “People Magazine” as the “Sexiest Man Alive” in 1991.
Despite undergoing chemotherapy, Swayze continued working on his A&E series “The Beast” and never lost hope. Swayze added his illness in a Barbara Walters interview, which aired last January.
A month before, Swayze had issued a statement to PEOPLE Magazine in regard to speculation about his health, saying that such questions “cast a negative shadow on the positive and good fight I’m fighting.”
He is survived by his wife Lisa Niemi.
(With reports from People Magazine and BNO News)
