Swayze, born in 1952 in Houston, played football as a teenager but turned to dancing by the late 1960s. He is pictured here circa 1967 with partner Sharon Schoettle in a photo for Houston's Morris ...

Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi's book about love, life and fighting cancer. Nov. 3, 2009— -- In a memoir Patrick Swayze and his wife, Lisa Niemi, chronicled the personal and professional ...

In this second promo image, you'll see that Swayze, who was 5 feet 10 inches tall, according to IMDb, is not just up on a plank of wood, but leaning on the front of his feet.

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.

Patrick Swayze ’s wife, Lisa Niemi, posed for the classic “ Dirty Dancing ” log scene at the unveiling of his new wax figure at West Hollywood ’s Madame Tussauds today.

Before Tom Cruise was doing it, Swayze was doing it." Patrick Swayze and Rob Lowe as Darrel "Darry" and Sodapop "Soda" Curtis in The Outsiders (1983). Getty Images ...

Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze got turned on by a pottery wheel 35 years ago in Ghost. “Whoa, my love, my darling, I’ve hungered for your touch …” With The Righteous Brothers ...