Actor
17 August 1952 to 13 September 2009
A dancer turned actor, Swayze enjoyed enormous success with the nostalgic romance Dirty Dancing (1987) and spiritual love story Ghost (1990). Equally adept at more rugged roles, he clearly enjoyed subverting audience expectations with films including Point Break (1991), To Wong Foo (1995), Donnie Darko (2001) and Keeping Mum (2005).
