Bigelow was determined to make Keanu Reeves into an action star and fought to give him a chance in the role. Swayze was well known at that point through many hit films, but Reeves had not blown up ...

Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze Had Once-in-a-Lifetime Chemistry While Bigelow’s direction is nothing short of magic, much of Point Break’s quality and its enduring legacy is owed to the ...

John Leguizamo Thinks Costars Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes Were 'Brave' for Playing Drag Queens in 1995's “To Wong Foo” “It was very groundbreaking because straight men were not playing ...

John Leguizamo Thinks Costars Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes Were 'Brave' for Playing Drag Queens in 1995's To Wong Foo “It was very groundbreaking because straight men were not playing those ...

Nov. 3, 2009 -- In September, actor Patrick Swayze died at age 57 after a 22-month battle with pancreatic cancer. He beat the odds, outliving his initial prognosis by more than a year and a half.

By 1991, Patrick Swayze was a household name. He followed up the unimaginable success of Dirty Dancing – and its accompanying soundtrack on which Swayze sings – with Road House and Ghost.