Sam Wheat

Sam Wheat is the protagonist of the 1990 film "Ghost". He is a deceased New York banker and a former co-worker of the villain Carl Bruner. He is played by the late Patrick Swayze.

Role in Film
Sam Wheat lives with his girlfriend Molly Jensen, and later dies from a gunshot (due to the other villain, Willie Lopez) trying to protect Molly while they are both walking home from a theater. He becomes a ghost and can now walk through solid objects, but can no longer be seen or heard by Molly. He cannot bear to leave Molly just yet even as a shaft of light from Heaven beckons him to pass on to the afterlife.