Swayze first sought to work as an actor, but his activity in Broadway theatre during 1929 ended when acting roles became scarce following Wall Street's stock market crash.

Some actors, for example Kane Hodder, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Bruce Lee, Jet Li, Jayan, Donnie Yen, James Garner, Barrett Snow, Burt Reynolds, Johnny Yong Bosch, Tom Cruise, Steve McQueen, Angelina Jolie, Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Q, Christopher Lee, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Patrick Swayze, Thora Birch, Milla Jovovich, Bridgette Wilson, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, " Stone Cold " Steve Austin, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Viggo Mortensen, are known to have performed their own stunts.

Tall Tale, also known as Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill is a 1995 Western adventure fantasy film starring Patrick Swayze, Nick Stahl, Oliver Platt, Roger Aaron Brown, Stephen Lang, Scott Glenn, Catherine O ' Hara, and Jared Harris.

Read is best known for his role as George Hazard in the three North and South TV miniseries ( 1985, 1986 and 1994 ) based on the John Jakes trilogy of novels of the same name ( his co-star ; Patrick Swayze taught him how to ride a horse ), and for his co-starring role in the movie Beaches.

In late 1961 and early 1962, Swayze served as one of three anchors of ABC News's evening news program but was better known for his appearances in commercials for Timex watches.

In 1990, the original recording of " Unchained Melody " was featured in the enormously popular feature film Ghost ( starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, and Best Supporting Actress Oscar < sup >®</ sup >- winner Whoopi Goldberg ).

In 1990, she starred as Oda Mae Brown, a psychic helping a slain man ( Patrick Swayze ) find his killer in the blockbuster film Ghost.

Donnie Darko is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze, Noah Wyle, Jena Malone, and Mary McDonnell.

He was portrayed by Patrick Swayze in Disney's 1995 film Tall Tale.

Ghost is a 1990 American romantic fantasy film starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg.

* In Jerry Zucker's 1990 romantic fantasy film Ghost, the character Willy Lopez ( Rick Aviles ) wears black leather driving gloves when he robs and shoots ( and thus kills ) Sam Wheat ( Patrick Swayze ).

Sheen's film career began in 1984 with a role in the Cold War teen drama Red Dawn with Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, and Jennifer Grey.

The operation was named after the 1984 film of the same name starring Patrick Swayze.

* Road House ( 1989 film ), a film directed by Rowdy Herrington and starring Patrick Swayze

Point Break is a 1991 action film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Lori Petty and Gary Busey.

The studio felt that this title said very little about surfing and by the time Patrick Swayze was cast, the film had been renamed Riders on the Storm after the famous rock song.

Swayze received a Golden Globe Award nomination for the role and also sang one of the songs on the soundtrack, " She's Like the Wind ", which he had originally co-written with Stacy Widelitz for the film Grandview, U. S. A.

Swayze also provided the voice for Cash the country music band dog in The Fox and the Hound 2 and in 2007 starred in the film Christmas in Wonderland.

Swayze played an aging rock star in Powder Blue, co-starring his younger brother Don in their first film together.

* Ghost ( 1990 film ), a 1990 film starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, and Whoopi Goldberg

Collins ' film credits include City of Joy ( 1992, co-starring Patrick Swayze ), My Mother's Courage ( 1995 in Germany as Mutters Courage, released in the USA in 1997 ), Paradise Road ( 1997, with Glenn Close and Cate Blanchett ), and Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War ( 2001 ), another appearance with Alderton.

He also trained Patrick Swayze in his own fighting techniques for the film.

Written by Eleanor Bergstein and directed by Emile Ardolino, the film features Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in the lead roles, as well as Cynthia Rhodes and Jerry Orbach.

This had the desired effect, and Swayze and Grey were able to return to the film with renewed energy and enthusiasm.

When the film was re-released in 1997, ten years after its original release, Swayze received his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and videos were still selling at the rate of over 40, 000 per month.

" Swayze had written the song a few years earlier with Stacy Widelitz, originally intending for it to be used in the 1984 film Grandview, U. S. A.

Patrick Swayze was paid $ 5 million to appear in a cameo role as a dance teacher — considerably more than the $ 200, 000 he earned for the first film.

* In the 1984 production of Red Dawn, the main character, Jed Eckert portrayed by Patrick Swayze, says that he was named after Smith by his father and states that he studied Smith's exploits along with other mountainmen of the era such as Jim Bridger.

Patrick Swayze, Alex Ferns and Don Johnson successively played Nathan Detroit after Douglas Hodge left.

Swayze actually based aspects of his character after one of his stunt doubles, Darrick Doerner, a top big wave surfer.

In early May 2008, it was widely reported in a number of tabloids that Swayze had undergone surgery to remove part of his stomach after the spread of the cancer and that he had rewritten his will, transferring his property to his wife.

In late July 2008, six months after reportedly being given just weeks to live by medical experts, a healthy-appearing Swayze was asked by reporter in Los Angeles airport about his health.

Swayze died with family at his side on September 14, 2009, at age 57, 20 months after being diagnosed.

During and after Mama's Family, Berry toured the US in various theatrical performances which included multiple performances of Sugar with co-stars such as Donald O ' Connor, Mickey Rooney, Soupy Sales and Bobby Morse, The Music Man with Susan Watson ( Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi were in the chorus ), I Do!

CBS News historian Gary Paul Gates, in Air Time: The Inside Story of CBS News, recorded a conversation between veteran CBS and NBC news executives musing over the shift from Edwards and Swayze to the Huntley-Brinkley and Cronkite newscasts, and Edwards's continuation at CBS compared to Swayze's later familiarity as a pitchman for Timex, after both men had fallen from their formerly lofty television perches.

In addition to his singing career, Travis pursued an acting career, appearing in numerous films and television series, including The Rainmaker ( 1997 ) with Matt Damon, Black Dog ( 1998 ) with Patrick Swayze, Texas Rangers ( 2001 ) with James Van Der Beek, and seven episodes of the Touched by an Angel television series.

In 1983 he and Outsiders co-star, Patrick Swayze, reunited for Grandview, U. S. A., also with Jamie Lee Curtis, and Red Dawn, with Charlie Sheen and Lea Thompson.

In 1983, he appeared as Johnny Cade in The Outsiders alongside many young actors who had yet to become major stars, such as C. Thomas Howell, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, and Matt Dillon.

The next choice was 34-year-old Patrick Swayze, who had been noticed for his roles in The Outsiders and Red Dawn, in which he had costarred with Grey.

He is a younger brother of the late actor Patrick Swayze and of sister Vicky Lynn, and the older brother of Sean Kyle and adopted sister Bora Song ( nicknamed Bambi ).

Lowe played the role of Sodapop Curtis, the brother of the main character Ponyboy Curtis ( C. Thomas Howell ) and Darrel Curtis ( Patrick Swayze ).

" Nobody puts Baby in a corner " was quoted in Supernatural, when Dean says the line concerning his beloved Impala and his brother Sam retorts that the line is from a Swayze movie, Dean responds: " Swayze always gets a pass ".