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Patrick Swayze dies at 57

Posted on Monday, Sept. 14, 2009
by Associated Press

Patrick Swayze in Ghost

LOS ANGELES (AP) - 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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