You'll be missed......

'Dirty Dancing' star Patrick Swayze dies after nearly 2-year battle with pancreatic cancer

LOS ANGELES September 14, 2009 (AP) The Associated Press

Patrick Swayze has died after a nearly two-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Swayze's publicist Annett Wolf says the 57-year-old "Dirty Dancing" actor died Monday with family at his side. He came forward about his illness last spring, but continued working as he underwent treatments.

It was 1987 when Swayze became a star with his performance in "Dirty Dancing," a coming-of-age story set in a Catskills resort. The 1990 film "Ghost" cemented his status as a screen favorite.

Swayze played a murdered man trying to communicate with his fiancee through a spirit played by Whoopi Goldberg.

He kept on working even after it was disclosed in March 2008 that he had a particularly deadly form of cancer. He starred in "The Beast," an A&E drama series, and said he and his wife were working on a memoir.

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I liked his movie, Point Break . . .

RIP Bro,,,

Loved him with Chris Farley on SNL...

wheel,

sad to hear this.

Fought the good fight. Sad, very sad.

Very sad news.

RIP Patrick. Loved him in Roadhouse. X

The whole family loved Dirty Dancing and Ghost, but my ultimate fav was Road House.

I can finally back Baby into a corner.

He'll be in the big Road House in the sky. RIP.

Wonder if he is a ghost now?

My wife's all time favorite chick flick is "Dirty Dancing"...she will cry when I tell her about Patrick.

Charlie

Wow. Seems like he spent the last couple of years denying that he was dying. I know a guy who got pancreatic cancer. IIRC, it's one of the most fatal cancers to get, hard to notice early and hard to treat.

But, hey, at least we've still got three boner pills and a pill that grows hair! I'm sure a cure for cancer is right around the corner.

Sad......pancreatic cancer is a tough one to beat.

While Dirty Dancing made him very popular, it also had one of the worst lines ever uttered in a movie......

f'n cancer.

I fn hate cancer

too many loved ones lost to the big "C"

RIP, brother, RIP

da76guinness

Jack ... go to sleep, it's late!

Why are we up at this hour?

I am sleepsurfing..

Liked him in THE NORTH & SOUTH...

RIP