Remembering Patrick Swayze

Patrick Swayze
Michael Ochs Archive / Getty Images

Always a Classic
Swayze, born in 1952 in Houston, played football as a teenager but turned to dancing by the late 1960s. He is pictured here circa 1967 with partner Sharon Schoettle in a photo for Houston's Morris Dance Company.

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