" Other reviews are critical of Swayze's role as Dalton.

Another memorable role was as knife-in-the-boot bad guy Gary Ketchum in Road House, performing featured fights against Patrick Swayze's Dalton.

Brother team Lawrence and Charles Gordon tried to market Swayze's rebel look, combine the gang concept with a police angle and came up with The Renegades.

The very first Mary Marvel character sketches came from Swayze's drawing table, and he illustrated her earliest adventures, including the classic origin story, " Captain Marvel Introduces Mary Marvel " ( Captain Marvel Adventures # 18, Dec. ' 42 ).

In addition to the remnants of the force which had been engaged under Brock in the morning, he had five companies of the 41st and seven of militia ( including Captain Runchey's Company of Coloured Men ), with two 3-pounder guns, belonging to Swayze's Provincial Artillery ( a militia unit ) but commanded by Lieutenant Crowther of the 41st.

" Swayze's doctor confirmed that the actor was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but insisted he was not as close to death as reports suggest.

However, the producers decided that the scene worked as it was, and put it into the film complete with Grey's giggling and Swayze's annoyed expression.

In time Swayze's almost manic style seemed frivolous compared to his CBS rival Douglas Edwards with the News who Swayze once out-rated but whose anchor sounded sober and no-nonsense.

Niemi, 15 years old at the time, was taking dance lessons from Swayze's mother.

Levy has cited Patrick Swayze's manipulative Zen master of crime in the film Point Break as an inspiration for the Raven persona.

This is a reference to the title character of Swayze's 1990 film Ghost.

He played Patrick Swayze's son in the 1993 film Father Hood.

In 2008, Danning returned to Europe to film Patrick Swayze's last film Jump !.

* In the 1984 motion picture Red Dawn, Patrick Swayze's character of Jed Smith says he used to read of the exploits of both Jim Bridger and Jedediah Smith, for whom he says he was named.

Initially, the program lost audience from Swayze's program, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower let it be known that he was displeased by the switch.

Entertainment Weekly gave it a " B " rating and wrote, " The making-of docs ( at their best discussing Swayze's extracurricular skydiving — that really is him doing the Adios, amigo fall ) will leave you hanging.

Swayze's first professional appearance was as a dancer for Disney on Parade.

It was later determined that the alcohol in question was not in the cabin, but stored in external storage compartments inaccessible in flight and that the probable cause of the accident was Swayze's physical impairment due to the cumulative effects of carbon monoxide from engine exhaust by-products, carbon monoxide from heavy tobacco use, and the loss of an undetermined amount of cabin pressurization.

The pneumonia was said to be a complication of chemotherapy treatments for Swayze's cancer.

Swayze's publicist, Annett Wolf, confirmed to CNN that he had died of pancreatic cancer.

Swayze's name has become a commonly used term in hip hop songs.

Julie Newmar: Patrick Swayze's character is from Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.

Sam Elliott also plays a bouncer, the mentor, friend and foil of Swayze's character.

The cast also includes Kelly Lynch as Swayze's love interest, and Ben Gazzara as the main antagonist.

In episode 321, which screened Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, the MST3K cast had their own ideas for potential residents on the Island of Misfit Toys: Toaster Dolls, Patrick Swayze's Roadhouse board game, the EZ Bake Foundry and Mr. Mashed Potato Head.

Treephort vocalist, songwriter, and founder, Lee Satterfield owns and operates Swayze's Venue and Swayze's Comics in Marietta, Georgia.

* Heavy tanks-large, thickly armoured, powerfully gunned, but barely mobile tanks ; intended for the breakthrough role against fortified lines, particularly in support of infantry formations.

Schultz ' breakthrough role was the mentally unstable Captain " Howling Mad " Murdock on The A-Team.

Robinson's role remains similar in circumstance to Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest ( 1936 ), Bogart's initial breakthrough which the studio had originally earmarked for Robinson.

The breakthrough role in Dunst's career came in Interview with the Vampire, a 1994 film based on Anne Rice's novel, in which she played the child vampire Claudia, a surrogate daughter to Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt's characters in the film.

A prominent supporting role in the science-fiction / action movie Demolition Man ( 1993 ) led to her breakthrough performance in Speed the following year.

Curry first became well known with his breakthrough role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the 1975 cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, reprising the role he played in the 1973 London and 1974 Los Angeles stage productions of The Rocky Horror Show, then later for his supporting roles as Rooster in the film adaption of Annie ( 1982 ), Lord of Darkness in the film Legend ( 1985 ), Wadsworth in the film Clue ( 1985 ) as well as a starring role as Pennywise the Clown in the horror TV miniseries It ( 1990 ), which is one of Curry's most acclaimed performances aside from Rocky Horror.

Pacino made his major breakthrough when he was given the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather in 1972, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

This was soon followed by his breakthrough 1967 film role as Benjamin Braddock, the title character in The Graduate.

" A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ), an adaptation of the stage play which he had also directed, received 12 Oscar nominations, winning 4, and was Marlon Brando's breakthrough role.

Her breakthrough film role came in 1983, when she played Lana in Risky Business.

His first film appearance was a role in Tony Richardson's The Entertainer ( 1960 ), with Laurence Olivier, but he made his breakthrough with his portrayal of a disillusioned factory worker in Karel Reisz's film version of Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.

After playing the lead role in Two Nights with Cleopatra ( 1953 ), her breakthrough role was in The Gold of Naples ( 1954 ), directed by Vittorio De Sica.

His breakthrough role was in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless ( 1960 ), which made him a major figure in the French New Wave.

DiCaprio made his big screen breakthrough in 1992, when he was handpicked by Robert De Niro out of 400 young actors to play the lead role in This Boy's Life, co-starring Ellen Barkin and De Niro himself.

Stagecoach is a 1939 American Western film directed by John Ford, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role.

That same year, she landed her breakthrough role as rich girl Darlene Merriman on the ABC sitcom Head of the Class.

Later, as " Tony Curtis ", he cemented his reputation with breakthrough performances such as in the role of the scheming press agent Sidney Falco in Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ) with Burt Lancaster ( who also starred in Criss Cross ) and an Oscar-nominated performance as a bigoted white escaped convict chained to the black Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones.

Keitel had the starring role in Scorsese's Mean Streets, which also proved to be Robert De Niro's breakthrough film.

McGann's breakthrough role was Give us a Break devised by Geoff McQueen who also created the long running ITV series, The Bill.

In the early 2000s, Astin experienced a career breakthrough with his role as Samwise Gamgee in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, released in 2001, 2002 and 2003.

He was renowned for his affinity with the works of Verdi, notably his breakthrough role of Ford in Falstaff, Simon Boccanegra in Simon Boccanegra and Iago in Otello.

After appearing mostly in TV films, such as the Ian McEwan-scripted The Ploughman's Lunch, and Martin Luther, Heretic, he achieved a breakthrough with his role as the subdued protagonist Sam Lowry in Terry Gilliam's 1985 film, Brazil.