|
|
Patrick Swayze
At the age of 57, Patrick Swayze died on 14th September 2009 after battling with pancreatic cancer for nearly two years. A representative for the actor said he "passed away peacefully with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months."
Swayze was born on 18th August 1952 in Houston, Texas. In 1972 he moved to New York to take part in formal dance training. After bit parts including M*A*S*H and a Broadway production of Grease, Swayze’s breakthrough role came in 1987 in the legendary film Dirty Dancing. The role of Johnny Castle gave him the chance to show off his dancing skills, as well as steal the hearts of women everywhere. Dirty Dancing was a low-budget success story – and was the first film to sell one million copies on VHS – that propelled Swayze to stardom status, earning him a Golden Globe nomination. As well as acting and dancing Swayze also lent his vocals to the soundtrack, singing "She's Like the Wind," one of the many Iconic songs featured in the film.
His next big success was in 1990, when he appeared with Demi Moore and Whoopie Goldberg in the Oscar winning Ghost. The film was a financial success and supplied one of the most Iconic scenes in cinema; when Swayze and Moore get muddy making pottery. Following that, in 1991 he co-starred with Keanu Reeves in Kathryn Bigelow’s action adventure, Point Break. More recently Swayze had smaller roles in Donnie Darko and Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights.
Swayze leaves behind his wife of 32 years, Lisa Niemi. The couple met as teenagers and had one of the strongest marriages in Hollywood.
News |
What members say |
Filmography
| Watch online (3)
Patrick Swayze - news / articles
-
-
Swayze tragedy hit Dirty Dancing co-star hard -
19 November 2009
-Actress Jennifer Grey is still struggling with the death of Dirty Dancing co-star Patrick Swayze because she has only recently realised just how strong her feelings were for the actor/dancer.-
-Grey and Swayze became iconic onscreen lovers in the hit 1987 film and, des
-
-
Swayze's widow to talk to Oprah -
28 October 2009
-Patrick Swayze's widow Lisa Niemi is to give her first indepth interview since the death of the actor to Oprah Winfrey.-
-The dancer will appear on Friday's (30Oct09) Oprah in America for a one-to-one about her late husband, who lost his battle with cancer in September
-
-
Swayze's frustration with Grey -
25 September 2009
-Patrick Swayze was left seething on the set of Dirty Dancing - because Jennifer Grey kept ruining their scenes by bursting into bouts of laughter. -
-The pair played star-crossed lovers in the hit 1987 romantic movie, but Swayze admitted Grey could sometimes be difficu
Patrick Swayze - what members say
Patrick Swayze - filmography
-
-
Powder Blue
(2009)
Starring: Jessica Biel, Jeffery A. Baker, Eddie Redmayne
Director: Timothy Linh Bui
Certificate: 
On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide. Jessica Biel, Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker and Eddie Redmayne lead a top-notch cast in this powerful thriller about an overwhelmed erotic dancer, a grieving husband who has lost ..read more »
Rate this:
 
62%
from 25 members
-
-
The Beast - Season 1
(3 discs)
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Brette Taylor, Randy Bernales
Director: Michael Dinner, Tom Verica
Certificate:
The Beast, starring Patrick Swayze and Travis Fimmel, centers on an unorthodox but effective FBI veteran, Charles Barker (Swayze), who takes on a rookie partner, Ellis Dove (Fimmel). Barker trains Dove in a hard-edged, psychologically driven approach towards undercover work, where a moment's ..read more »
Rate this:
69%
from 177 members
-
-
Christmas In Wonderland
(2007)
Starring: Matthew Knight, Preston Lacy, Matthew Walker
Director: James Orr
Certificate: 
It's turning out to be a pretty rotten Christmas for the Saunders family. Having just moved to a new city from Los Angeles, they have no friends, no money and, with the exception of the bright-eyed Mary, no Christmas spirit. To make matters worse, their mother is stuck in L.A., stranded by airline ..read more »
Rate this:
60%
from 1 member
Due for release on 23rd November 2009
-
-
Jump
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Ben Silverstone, Patrick Swayze, Martine McCutcheon
Director: Joshua Sinclair
Certificate:
Watch now: Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package.
Photographer Philippe Halsman became one of the most sought-after celebrity portrait artists of his generation, creating memorable images of famous personalities often jumping in midair for LIFE magazine. Before coming to the U.S., however, Halsman suffered a terrible fate. Set in 1928 Austria "..read more »
Rate this:
56%
from 636 members
-
-
Icon
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Annika Peterson, Ben Cross, Patrick Swayze
Director: Charles Martin Smith
Certificate:
The only man who can stop the "Black Manifesto" of a right wing Russian extremist is ex-CIA Agent, Jason Monk (Swayze). Monk will stop at nothing to accomplish his mission. But first, he has to stay alive in the shadowy world of the lawless Eastern Block...
Classic Cold War espionage thriller ..read more »
Rate this:
59%
from 82 members
-
-
Keeping Mum
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith
Director: Niall Johnson
Certificate:
Walter Goodfellow (Rowan Atkinson), the well meaning vicar of the parish of Little Wallop, is so obsessed with writing the perfect sermon that he is oblivious to his wife Gloria’s (Kristin Scott Thomas) dalliance with her brash golf instructor Lance (Patrick Swayze); neither does he notice that ..read more »
Rate this:
66%
from 33,584 members
-
-
King Solomon's Mines
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Alison Doody
Director: Steve Boyum
Certificate:
Renowned safari hunter Allan Quatermain (Patrick Swayze – Dirty Dancing, Road House) has given up the life of an adventurer, vowing to leave the natural splendour of Africa to its own people and its destruction to others. But his acceptance of a handsome offer from beautiful Elizabeth Maitland
(..read more »
Rate this:
59%
from 157 members
-
-
Dirty Dancing 2 : Havana Nights
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Romola Garai, Diego Luna, John Slattery
Director: Guy Ferland
Certificate: 
Havana: November, 1958. 18-year-old Katey Miller (Romola Garai) brings an innate curiosity and a smattering of Spanish to her new life in Cuba's lush capital, where her father has taken an executive posting at Chrysler. Schooled by her parents in the art of ballroom dancing, Katey is expected to ..read more »
Rate this:
52%
from 7,790 members
-
-
11:14
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Barbara Hershey, Patrick Swayze, Hilary Swank
Director: Greg Marcks
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
At 11:14 PM on one fatal evening, previously unconnected lives connect for the first time, with fatal consequences for some. This is the premise behind director Greg Marcks's inventive drama, 11:14, which draws on an impressive cast that includes Hilary Swank (BOYS DON'T CRY), Patrick Swayze (..read more »
Rate this:
61%
from 14,961 members
-
-
Donnie Darko
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Noah Wyle
Director: Richard Kelly
Certificate:
Writer-director Richard Kelly's bold debut film is a social satire, a dark comedy, a science fiction time-travelling fantasy, and a suburban nightmare about an extremely intelligent, depressive, self-destructive, narcoleptic, gun-toting, sex-crazed, teenaged arsonist: Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal)...read more »
Rate this:
71%
from 60,587 members
-
-
Donnie Darko - BLU-RAY Version
(2001)
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Noah Wyle
Director: Richard Kelly
Certificate:
Writer-director Richard Kelly's bold debut film is a social satire, a dark comedy, a science fiction time-travelling fantasy, and a suburban nightmare about an extremely intelligent, depressive, self-destructive, narcoleptic, gun-toting, sex-crazed, teenaged arsonist: Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal)...read more »
Rate this:
78%
from 509 members
-
-
Waking Up In Reno
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Charlize Theron, Billy Bob Thornton, Patrick Swayze
Director: Jordan Brady
Certificate:
Billy Bob Thornton, Natasha Richardson, Charlize Theron, and Patrick Swayze star in this redneck road trip comedy that is a twisted mixture of the 1969 wife-swapping classic BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE and 1997's VEGAS VACATION. Lonnie Earl (Thornton) is a self-centered Little Rock, Arkansas car ..read more »
Rate this:
53%
from 541 members
-
-
Along For The Ride
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Melanie Griffith, Patrick Swayze, Penelope Ann Miller
Director: John Kaye
Certificate:
Along for The Ride
Two Ex-Lovers, One Open Road.
Patrick Swayze (Dirty Dancing) and Melanie Griffith (Working Girl) are Ben and Lulu. Years ago, they had an intense passionate affair, a relationship that ended very badly.
Now, fifteen years later, he's a successful married writer who ..read more »
Rate this:
49%
from 139 members
-
-
Black Dog
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Randy Travis, Meat Loaf
Director: Kevin Hooks
Certificate:
Gun runners and government agents pursue truck driver Jack as he races a fleet of eighteen wheelers along the highway. He has one more delivery to make and he's desperate for cash...
Rate this:
59%
from 466 members
-
-
North And South - Season 3
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Patrick Swayze, James Read, Lesley-Anne Down
Director: Richard T. Heffron
Certificate:
Season Three of the epic saga of North And South which features the trials of the South Carolina Main family and the Pennsylvanian Hazards. In the fateful year 1861 began a war which was to tear America apart, and which threatened to destroy the lives of the Hazard and Main clans. Friend fights ..read more »
Rate this:
71%
from 195 members
-
-
City of Joy
(1992)
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Om Puri
Director: Roland Joffé
Certificate: 
Swayze stars as Max Lowe, a disillusioned surgeon who travels to India after a young patient dies on the operating table. But Lowe's determination to quit medicine is challenged when he meets a committed British nurse who runs a free clinic in Calcutta's most dangerous neighborhood. And when her ..read more »
Rate this:
66%
from 59 members
-
-
Point Break
(1991)
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Certificate: 
POINT BREAK is a high-velocity thrill ride in which clean-cut FBI agent Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) goes head to head with surfer renegade Bodhi (Patrick Swayze). Rookie Utah is assigned to go undercover to investigate a string of 28 bank robberies by a gang called the Ex-Presidents. With very ..read more »
Rate this:
71%
from 9,751 members
Not currently released
-
-
Ghost
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg
Director: Jerry Zucker
Certificate:
After renovating their expensive loft in the TriBeCa section of Manhattan, Molly and Sam, a young successful yuppie couple, are walking home one evening when Sam is tragically gunned down by a street mugger. Molly goes into a deep depression, but, unknown to her, Sam has come back as a ghost in ..read more »
Rate this:
68%
from 23,552 members
-
-
Ghost - BLU-RAY Version
(1990)
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Whoopi Goldberg, Vincent Schiavelli
Director: Jerry Zucker
Certificate:
After renovating their expensive loft in the TriBeCa area of downtown Manhattan, Molly (Demi Moore) and Sam (Patrick Swayze), a yuppie couple, are walking home one evening when Sam is tragically gunned down by a street mugger. Molly goes into a deep depression, but, unknown to her, Sam has come ..read more »
Rate this:
71%
from 486 members
-
-
Next Of Kin
(1989)
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Liam Neeson, Adam Baldwin
Director: John Irvin
Certificate:
Truman, a Chicago cop, sets out to find the killer of his brother. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.
Rate this:
57%
from 144 members
Awaiting stock
-
-
Road House
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Ben Gazzara, Sam Elliott
Director: Rowdy Herrington
Certificate:
Dalton is the best bouncer in the business. He is hired to help clean up a rowdy Missouri roadhouse by the name of 'Double Deuce'. This is a job he can handle with ease, or so he thinks. The 'Double Deuce' has other problems in the shape of the town's kingpin who will kill anyone who gets in his way...
Rate this:
68%
from 4,367 members
-
-
Dirty Dancing - BLU-RAY Version
(1987)
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Cynthia Rhodes
Director: Emile Ardolino
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
Headstrong 17-year-old Baby Houseman hardly expects her family's usual summer vacation in the Catskills to be momentous. But then Baby spies Johnny Castle, the resort's dance instructor from the wrong side of the tracks. Johnny's facing a crisis: his dance partner and friend Penny is pregnant and ..read more »
Rate this:
72%
from 901 members
-
-
Dirty Dancing
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Cynthia Rhodes
Director: Emile Ardolino
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
Headstrong 17-year-old Baby Houseman hardly expects her family's usual summer vacation in the Catskills to be momentous. But then Baby spies Johnny Castle, the resort's dance instructor from the wrong side of the tracks. Johnny's facing a crisis: his dance partner and friend Penny is pregnant and ..read more »
Rate this:
72%
from 24,001 members
-
-
Steel Dawn
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Patrick Swayze, John Fujioka, Christopher Neame
Director: Lance Hool
Certificate:
They call him Nomad--man without a home, man without a past--a new breed of warrior trained in the arts of swordsmanship and hand-to-hand combat, roaming the vast desert wastelands in a post-nuclear age--a time when laws are useless and water is more precious than blood. Patrick Swayze stars with ..read more »
Rate this:
59%
from 444 members
-
-
Youngblood
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, Cynthia Gibb
Director: Peter Markle
Certificate:
Dean Youngblood (Rob Lowe), a sensitive young farm boy, leaves behind a humdrum life on his father's farm to fulfill his dream, and that of his blind brother, of becoming a star of the skates and stick in the ice hockey team. As he gets the stuffing kicked out of him in the first games and ..read more »
Rate this:
66%
from 1,162 member
-
-
Red Dawn
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze
Director: John Milius
Certificate:
In the heartland of America, Russian and Cuban paratroopers begin to drop outside while classes go on in the high school. When the soldiers begin killing everyone in sight, local teens take to the hills to avoid the new totalitarian regime established in their little town and, as we later learn, ..read more »
Rate this:
60%
from 2,210 members
-
-
Uncommon Valour
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Gene Hackman, Fred Ward, Randall Cobb
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Certificate:
With the financial backing of a wealthy Texan, Colonel Jason Rhodes (Gene Hackman) prepares to carry out a dangerous mission to find his son who is listed as "missing in action" in Vietnam. Five of his son's Marine buddies accompany him. The film also stars Robert Stack, Patrick Swayze, Fred Ward ..read more »
Rate this:
61%
from 477 members
-
-
Saturday Night Live - 25 Years Of Music ...
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: The Bangles, Tom Petty, Paul Simon
Certificate: 
Featuring the best from the last twenty-five years of live performances. The tracklist includes: The Bangles - 'Hazy Shade Of Winter', Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - 'Free Fallin', Paul Simon - 'Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes', Fine Young Cannibals - 'She Drives Me Crazy' and Elvis Costello -..read more »
Rate this:
48%
from 161 members
-
-
Tiger Warsaw
on DVD
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Piper Laurie, Lee Richardson
Director: Amin Q. Chaudhri
Certificate:
Chuck 'Tiger' Warsaw returns to his home town after an absence of 15 years, precipitated by an act of irresponsibility which destroyed his sister's wedding and left his father mentally unstable. His home-coming is shunned by his family, but he tries desperately to overcome the problems.
PLEASE ..read more »
Rate this:
51%
from 82 members
-
-
The Fox And The Hound 2
on DVD
Starring: Jeff Foxworthy, Reba McEntire, Patrick Swayze
Director: Jim Kammerud
Certificate: 
Disney goes country with this sequel to the beloved animated classic THE FOX AND THE HOUND. Tod and Copper are still best buddies and as thick as thieves. When Copper gets a chance to show off his vocal talents in a hound dog chorus, his newfound success threatens to ruin a beautiful friendship. ..read more »
Rate this:
67%
from 920 members
Patrick Swayze - watch online
-
-
Jump!
to Watch Now
(2007)
Starring: Ben Silverstone, Patrick Swayze, Martine McCutcheon
Director: Joshua Sinclair
Certificate:
Watch now: Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package.
Run time: 106 minutes
Photographer Philippe Halsman became one of the most sought-after celebrity portrait artists of his generation, creating memorable images of famous personalities often jumping in midair for LIFE magazine. Before coming to the U.S., however, Halsman suffered a terrible fate. Set in 1928 Austria JUMP ..read more »
Rate this:
10%
from 1 member
-
-
11:14
to Watch Now
(2003)
Starring: Rachael Leigh Cook, Barbara Hershey, Patrick Swayze
Director: Greg Marcks
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
Run time: 86 minutes
At 11:14 PM on one fatal evening, previously unconnected lives connect for the first time, with fatal consequences for some. This is the premise behind director Greg Marcks's inventive drama, 11:14, which draws on an impressive cast that includes Hilary Swank (BOYS DON'T CRY), Patrick Swayze (..read more »
Rate this:
52%
from 7 members
-
-
Dirty Dancing
to Watch Now
(1987)
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach
Director: Emile Ardolino
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
Run time: 96 minutes
In the summer of 1963, innocent 17-year-old Baby vacations with her parents at a Catskill's resort. One evening she is drawn to the staff quarters by stirring music. There she meets Johnny, the hotel dance instructor, who is as experienced as Baby is naive. Baby soon becomes Johnny's pupil in dance ..read more »
Rate this:
78%
from 345 members
|
Patrick Swayze facts
|
Ridiculous story yet great entertainment! 25 January 2005
...ing Soviet army parachuting onto US soil and a bunch of high school kids led by Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen organising the resistance.... Who do you think is gonna win t...
Wonderful 4 November 2004
