 Actor Patrick Swayze passed away yesterday after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer. He was only 57 years old. A statement released last night by his publicist, Annett Wolf, said “Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months." Swayze, who exchanged wedding rings with Lisa Niemi in 1975, wrote a touching chronicle about his life, with his wife, prior to his death. Entitled ‘Time Of My Life’, the memoir will hit stores September 29th of this year. Texas-born Patrick Swayze was the son of a choreographer and dance school owner. He studied at New York ballet schools. He met future wife of 34 years, Lisa Niemi, while she was a student at his mother's dance school. Swayze enjoyed a varied Hollywood and Broadway career. His first major role was that of Danny Zuko in the original Broadway production of ‘Grease’. In 1983, he appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's ‘The Outsiders’. He played dance instructor, Johnny Castle, in the hit 1987 movie ‘Dirty Dancing’. In 1990, he starred opposite Demi Moore in the blockbuster romance film, ‘Ghost’. Most recently, he starred in the TV drama, ‘The Beast’, playing a rogue FBI agent. ‘The Beast’ was filmed after his cancer diagnosis. Besides his wife Lisa, Patrick is survived by his mother, Patsy, and siblings Don, Sean and Bambi. He will be sorely missed.
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