Template:Infobox Sam Wheat is the main protagonist of the Jerry Zucker's 1990 film Ghost.
He is portrayed by the late Patrick Swayze.
Biography
New York banker Sam Wheat lives with his girlfriend Molly Jensen, and later killed from a gunshot (due to the other villain, Willy Lopez) trying to protect Molly while they are both walking home from a theater. He also dicovers his former friend/co-worker Carl Bruner is the scheme's leader. 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.