Who of us didn't swoon over him in Dirty Dancing, I know I did.
And I cried right along with Demi Moore in Ghost.
I even liked him in the one about the surfer dudes wearing presidents masks and becoming bank robbers.
In a town where marriage was not a lasting thing, he made it work for 34 years with a girl he met when he was 18 and she was only 14.
He was a public figure who managed to live his private life privately.