15 Sep 2009

Dirty Dancing star Patrick Swayze dies

From Checkpoint, 5:43 pm on 15 September 2009

The American actor Patrick Swayze, whose turn as a smoldering dance instructor made him one of the best known movie stars of the 1980s has died after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer.

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