Even though we all knew that Patrick Swayze was battling cancer the actor's death last week did come as a bit of a shock.
In a career that has spanned almost thirty years the popular actor has made thousands of women fall in love with him in Dirty Dancing and thousands of women cry in Ghost.
So to celebrate his career and a life that has been cut tragically short FemaleFirst takes a look at some of the actor's best movie moments.
- Nobody Puts Baby In A Corner (Dirty Dancing)
Johnny Castle is arguably Swayze's most memorable role and was the one that shot him to fame. But it's the final scenes that are the most famous.
Johnny, even though he has been fired, returns to the resort to perform the final dance of the season with Baby. He criticises the Housemans for their choice of Baby's seat, he utters the film's most famous line, "Nobody puts Baby in a corner," as he pulls her up from the family's table.
- Dalton vs Jimmy (Road House)
Ok so Road House wasn't the biggest hit of Swayze's career, totally under-appreciated if you ask me, but it contains one of the best fight scenes that the actor was every involved in.
Shirtless, which is always a plus, the scene showed off his martial arts training in a fight that ends when he rips the other guy's throat from his neck, perhaps not for the faint hearted.
- Sam Says Goodbye To Molly (Ghost)
Ghost was Patrick Swayze's other mammoth movie when it was released back in 1990, yes it really was almost twenty years ago.
And the ending is still a movie moment that brings a tear to my eye. By the end of the film Molly can now hear Sam. He is then enveloped in bright light, which makes him visible to both Oda Mae and Molly.
It's time for Sam to go to heaven after sharing a kiss with Molly and saying a final goodbye to Oda Mae he walks towards the bright light. Not a dry eye in the house.
- Surfing Into The Void (Point Break)
Starring alongside Keanu Reeves in the 1991 movie Point Break it has, over the years gained a bit of a cult following.
Swayze starred as a surfer who liked to rob banks in his spare time while Reeves played an FBI agent hell bent on catching these criminals.
In this scene Reeves catches up with Swayze on the coast of Australia, where he's ready to take a suicide plunge into the biggest wave of his life.
Ok so Swayze does play the baddie of the piece but he is ready to die doing what he loves best, what a guy!.
- Unchained Melody
And we couldn't look at Swayze's best movie moments without including the pottery scene with Demi Moore from Ghost.
It remains one of cinema's most famous love scenes and is regularly parodied, have you seen The Naked Gun?
Patrick Swayze 1952 - 2009
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