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Swayze sent Calcutta into a tizzy when director Roland Joffe came down with the handsome hunk to shoot the big screen adaptation of Dominique Lapierre’s The City of Joy in 1991. The actor spent quite some time with his Indian counterparts like Om Puri and Shabana Azmi
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Even today screen romance is epitomised by this Ghost (1990) scene of Swayze’s Sam sitting behind Demi Moore’s Molly and the two trying their hands at some passionate pottery even as The Righteous Brothers’ Unchained Melody plays in the background. Moore tweeted: “And in the words of Sam to Molly. ‘It’s amazing Molly. The love inside, you take it with you.’ I love and will miss you Patrick.”
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Point Break capitalised on Swayze’s on-screen bohemian image and starred him as Bodhi, the charismatic leader of a gang of surfers against Keanu Reeves’s rookie FBI agent
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Swayze’s breakthrough role came with his performance as dance instructor Johnny Castle in the 1987 film Dirty Dancing that changed the way the world danced. Just like that
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The Swayze film that created quite a stir post-Dirty Dancing and gave him an action avatar was Road House, which saw him as a bouncer at a seedy roadside bar protecting a small town in Missouri from a corrupt businessman
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It’s difficult to imagine a man with such pronounced cheek bones to dress up like a woman. But Swayze did just that in the 1995 film To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar and picked up a Golden Globe Best Actor nomination for being Vida
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The television series The Beast was Swayze’s final act. It debuted on January 15 this year and on June 15, Entertainment Tonight announced that the show was cancelled because of Swayze’s pancreatic cancer
