Patrick Swayze, star of memorable films such as "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost," died on Monday after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Despite revealing in March last year that he had pancreatic cancer, he continued his work on the A&E series "Beast."

His first strong role came in the form of 1983's Francis Ford Coppola film "The Outsiders" where he starred with C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise and Diane Lane.

He later went on to star create big fan base with films like "Road House" and "Point Break."

He is survived by his wife Lisa Niemi, brother Don who is also an actor and his mother.

You'll be sorely missed Patrick.