What actor can be added to the 2009 celebrity deaths list?
Patrick Swayze, the actor best known for his roles in “Dirty Dancing” and “Ghost,” died Monday after battling pancreatic cancer. He was 57. Swayze is most-recognized for his role as dance instructor Johnny Castle in the hit 1987 film “Dirty Dancing,” for which he received a Golden Globe nomination. The film centers around an unlikely romance between Swayze and co-star Jennifer Grey during a summer at a 1960s resort in the Catskills of New York. Swayze’s shirtless dance scenes and signature line “Nobody puts Baby in the corner” helped to propel the actor to heartthrob status. He received a second Globe nomination for playing the ghost Sam Wheat in 1990’s “Ghost,” in which he starred alongside Demi Moore. That film was the highest-grossing of the year. In January 2008, Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He had been undergoing chemotherapy at the Stanford University Medical Center in California. Even after his diagnosis, Swayze continued to shoot a television series for A&E, “Th
