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 ).

He was signed to a publishing agreement with Famous Music ( Paramount Pictures ) from the late 1980s through the 1990s and has written songs for movies and TV productions such as the big-screen hit Point Break starring Keanu Reeves, Patrick Swayze and the well-known TV series ' Beverly Hills, 90210 and 21 Jump Street featuring Johnny Depp.

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

Jasper is the nominal setting of the 1989 movie Road House, starring Patrick Swayze ; however, the movie was not actually filmed in Jasper.

* 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.

The star of The Renegades, and leader of the gang, was The Bandit played by Patrick Swayze.

In 2007, McCutcheon was seen in two independent films, Withdrawal opposite Patrick Swayze and Jump !, as well Marple episode At Bertram's Hotel, where she plays a maid named Jane Cooper that assists Miss Marple with her investigations.

Launched in February 1948 by NBC, Camel Newsreel Theatre was a 10-minute program anchored by John Cameron Swayze, and featured newsreels from Movietone News.

Daly left ABC in 1960 and was succeeded by a frequently expanding list of successors that included John Cameron Swayze, Bill Laurence, Bill Sheehan, Ron Cochran, a young Peter Jennings, and Bob Young.

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

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 felt that Bodhi was a lot like him and that they both shared " that wild-man edge.

At the 1992 MTV Movie Awards, Point Break was nominated for three awards including " Most Desirable Male " ( Keanu Reeves ), " Most Desirable Male " ( Patrick Swayze ), and " Best Action Sequence " for the second jump from the plane.

Patrick Wayne Swayze (; August 18, 1952 – September 14, 2009 ) was an American actor, dancer and singer-songwriter.

Diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer in January 2008, Swayze told Barbara Walters a year later that he was " kicking it ".

Due to a prolonged decline in health, Swayze was unable to promote the series, and it was cancelled by June 2009.

Patrick Swayze was born on August 18, 1952, in Houston, Texas, the second child of Patsy Yvonne Helen ( née Karnes ; born 1927 ), a choreographer, dance instructor, and dancer, and Jesse Wayne Swayze ( 1925 – 1982 ), an engineering draftsman.

He was a sixth cousin, once removed, of news commentator John Cameron Swayze, and a relative of noted Texas Revolution soldier Henry Karnes.

Swayze was raised Roman Catholic.

After Dirty Dancing, Swayze found himself typecast and appeared in several flops, of which Road House was the most successful.

Swayze was seriously injured in 1998 while filming HBO's Letters from a Killer near Ione, California when he fell from a horse and hit a tree.

Swayze was married to Lisa Niemi from June 12, 1975, until his death.

The couple first met in 1970 when Swayze was 18 years old.

Swayze is mentioned in a lyric of Allan Sherman's novelty song " My Grandfather's Watch ", a parody of Henry Clay Work's " My Grandfather's Clock ".

His Timex commercials are mentioned in the episode " The Stan Who Came to Dinner ", which broadcast January 10, 1987, where Sophia ( Estelle Getty ) tells of a recurring dream where John Cameron Swayze straps a Timex to her chin and tosses her across an icy pond.

Swayze is also mentioned in Damian " Junior Gong " Marley's Pimper's Paradise when Marley uses a simile to describe how the main character in the song behaves.

Conservative gym teacher Kitty Farmer ( Beth Grant ) blames the flooding on the influence of the short story " The Destructors ", assigned by English teacher Karen Pomeroy ( Drew Barrymore ), and begins teaching attitude lessons taken from motivational speaker Jim Cunningham ( Patrick Swayze ).

The plot centers on a young woman in jeopardy ( Moore ) and the ghost of her murdered lover ( Swayze ), who tries to save her with the help of a reluctant psychic ( Goldberg ).

* January 24 – John Cameron Swayze begins his daily Journal-Post News Flashes on W9XAL, which is simulcast on KMBC radio.

In 1952, Brinkley began providing Washington reporting on NBC Television's evening news program, The Camel News Caravan ( the name changed over time ), hosted by John Cameron Swayze.

Both films also featured memorable performances from a number of young male actors who would go on to become leading men in the next decade ( as well as members of the so-called " Brat Pack "), including Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, C. Thomas Howell, Emilio Estevez, the late Patrick Swayze, Mickey Rourke, Nicolas Cage, and Matt Dillon.

Two months before filming, Lori Petty, Reeves, and Swayze trained with former world class professional surfer Dennis Jarvis on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.

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 made his West End theatre début in the musical Guys and Dolls as Nathan Detroit on July 27, 2006, alongside Neil Jerzak, and remained in the role until November 25, 2006.

Swayze, who was a certified pilot with an instrument rating, made the news on June 1, 2000, while flying with his dogs in his twin-engine Cessna from Van Nuys, California to Las Vegas.

His plane developed a pressurization problem, causing Swayze to make a precautionary landing on a dirt road in a housing complex in Prescott Valley.

In a statement made on May 28, Swayze said that he continued to respond well to treatment at Stanford University Medical Center.

Swayze appeared on the ABC, NBC, and CBS simulcast of Stand Up to Cancer in September 2008, to appeal to the general public for donations for the initiative.

Owing to a prolonged decline in health, Swayze was unable to promote the series, and on June 15, 2009 the show was cancelled.

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

Baby develops a crush on the resort's dance instructor Johnny Castle ( Swayze ), leader of the working-class entertainment staff.

Grey was not happy about the choice, as she and Swayze had had difficulty getting along on Red Dawn but when they did their dancing screen test, the chemistry between them was obvious.

The dancing and drinking went on almost non-stop and, immersed in the environment, the lead actors, Grey and Swayze, began identifying with their characters.

Patrick Swayze also required a hospital visit ; insisting on doing his own stunts, he repeatedly fell off of the log during the " balancing " scene and injured his knee so badly he had to have fluid drained from the swelling.

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.

Julie Newmar is a 1995 American comedy film, starring Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, and John Leguizamo as three New York drag queens who embark on a road trip.

* In the film Ghost, Sam ( Patrick Swayze ) sings this song on a continuous run in a bad English accent all night long, convincing Oda Mae Brown ( Whoopi Goldberg ) to help him ; Sam's girlfriend Molly ( Demi Moore ) later reveals that Sam used this tactic to get her to agree to go out with him.