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Patrick Swayze dead at 57

Actor Patrick Swayze lost his battle with pancreatic cancer today at the age of 57. Swayze's film credits include The Outsiders, Red Dawn, Road House, Youngblood, Ghost, Point Break, and Donnie Darko.
Actor Patrick Swayze lost his battle with pancreatic cancer today at the age of 57.

Swayze's film credits include The Outsiders, Red Dawn, Road House, Youngblood, Ghost, Point Break, and Donnie Darko. But it was his roles in Dirty Dancing and Ghost that pegged him as a Hollywood heartthrob.

In 1991 Swayze was voted People magazine's sexiest man alive.