Actor Patrick Swayze in the 1990 film Ghost
He had the looks, and the moves. As the star of some of the most iconic films of the 1980s and '90s Dirty Dancing , Ghost , Point Break and that epic of B-movie machismo, Road House Patrick Swayze brought intelligence and warmth to old-fashioned movie maleness. Then he played his greatest, most heroic role, in a gritty, dignified, very public 20-month battle with pancreatic cancer that ended on Sept. 14. The actor was 57.
Seriously gorgeous in his prime, with a face that was sensual and craggy, Swayze always seemed secure in his studliness;...
