fortune before passing away of pancreatic cancer. Today, the star would have turned 70, and his 1991 action hit Point Break airs tomorrow evening on BBC One at 10:40pm.
While Dirty Dancing skyrocketed his career, the actor had worked hard to keep his name in the minds of audiences, and easily did so with his Eighties heartthrob status.
His reputation flowed off-camera and onto Broadway, with Swayze's singing and dancing skills making him a recurrent face in romantic films and plays, elevating him to the status of sex symbol. © GETTY Patrick Swayze All of this greatly contributed to his incredible net worth, along with a mansion in San Fernando Valley which sold a few years after his death for $2.
9million (£2. 4million). Swazye was estimated to be worth a staggering $40million (£33million) at the time of his death in 2009.
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