The Dirty Dancing star would have marked his 72nd birthday in 2024, but he sadly passed away in 2009 at the age of 57 after a ...

Melissa Gilbert opens up to PEOPLE about witnessing how “brutal” Michael Landon’s and Patrick Swayze’s battles with pancreatic cancer were and how that inspired her new partnership with PanCAN, a ...

His name was Patrick Swayze. It was love at first sight for ... charismatic actors and dancers in Hollywood, died from pancreatic cancer. Afterward, Niemi released a couple of books and a ...

Melissa Gilbert opened up about the “brutal and pernicious” disease that took Michael Landon and Patrick Swayze’s lives. She’s raising awareness for pancreatic cancer through her lifestyle ...

Pancreatic cancer ranks as the third leading cause of ... of men I'd ever known in my life,” she says of Landon and Swayze. “Athletic, talented, I mean, you name it. To me, these guys were ...

Melissa Gilbert recently paid tribute to actors Michael Landon and Patrick Swayze as part of an effort to raise awareness for pancreatic cancer, which claimed both of their lives. Gilbert ...

Two of those were her Little House on the Prairie co-star Michael Landon and Gilbert's longtime friend, Patrick Swayze, who both died from pancreatic cancer. “We read about it, we hear about it ...

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Landon, who starred as Gilbert's character's father and directed nearly half of the episodes, died at 54 years old in 1991 from pancreatic cancer. Gilbert also grew close to Patrick Swayze ("Ghost," ...