Patrick Swayze: biografi og 'Dirty Dancing' resume

Patrick Wayne Swayze was an American actor, dancer, singer and songwriter.

Swayze was born on August 18th, 1952 in Houston, Texas. He passed away on September 14th, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. He died of pancreatic cancer, because he smoked too much in Roadhouse. That wasn’t because of that, I just thought it was funny.

When Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer all the papers said that it was a really critical situation and could easily cause death to Swayze. But Swayze’s spokesperson said on March 8th, 2008 that the disease was limited and that the treatment was really effective. On November 14th, 2008 wrote National Enquirer though, that the cancer has spread to the liver and that the doctors lost the hope. Then Swayze gave up and got home to his wife Lisa Niemi.

Swayze was the son of Jesse Wayne Swayze and choreographer and ballet school owner Patsy Swayze. His brother Don Swayze is also an actor.

Swayze got his breakthrough in 1987 in the movie Dirty Dancing. He was acting for one of the starring roles, Johnny Castle. Here’s a summary of the movie Dirty Dancing.

In 1963, Frances "Baby" Houseman, a sweet daddy's girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York's Catskill Mountains. Baby has grown up in privileged surroundings and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before marrying a doctor, just like her father. Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, a man whose background is vastly different from her own. Baby lies to her father to get money to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny's dance partner. She then fills in as Johnny's dance partner and it is as he is teaching her the dance routine that they fall in love. It all comes apart when Johnny's friend falls seriously ill after her abortion and Baby gets her father, who saves the girl's life. He then learns what Baby has been up to, who with and worse, that he funded the illegal abortion. He bans his daughter from any further association with "those people". In the first deliberately willful action of her life, Baby later sneaks out to see Johnny, ostensibly to apologize for her father's rudeness, and ends up consummating her relationship with Johnny. A jealous fellow vacationer sees Baby sneaking out of Johnny's bungalow the next morning, and in an act of retribution, tells management that he is responsible for a theft the evening before, knowing he would not furnish his real whereabouts.