Robert Scorpio of ‘General Hospital’ was 79
Tristan Rogers, who played as Robert Scorpio in ‘General Hospital’, died of lung cancer. He was 79.
Roger’s old manager, Meryl Soodak, confirmed that the actor died on Friday morning ABC 7 Eyewitness NewsAnd said he had never been a smoker.
Soodak told The Outlet that Rogers’ display of Scorpio in the soap opera ‘meant everything for him’. She added: “He loved being Scorpio and he created that role from nothing. He had to work a day, and he finally made something huge. He was just a really loyal, friendly person and loved his family.”
After the news of his death, “General Hospital” showrunner Frank Valentini shared an explanation with Variety.
“The whole family of the General Hospital is deeply sad to hear about the death of Tristan Rogers. Tristan has fascinated our fans for 45 years and Port Charles will not be the same without him (or Robert Scorpio). I would like to expand my deepest sympathy for his family and friends in this difficult time. Mog Tristan was a one -time time and will be a long time.”
Like the impossible soft, cool, sarcastic spy robert scorpio, in the early 1980s (he joined the show in December 1980, Rogers was an important member of the “General Hospital” acting ensemble – next to “Supercouple” Luke (Anthony Garyy) and Laura that Time Stow. His peak on November 17, 1981, when Luke and Laura got married (Scorpio was Luke’s best man), Elizabeth Taylor Gastster as the villain-like Helena Cassadine and the show attracted a 30 million viewers audience.
Robert had his own romantic complications and was the third member of a famous love triangle between former Grifter Holly (Emma Samms) and colleague spy Anna Devane (Finola Hughes). Later Robert and Anna’s daughter Robin (Kimberly McCullough) also became a hugely important character in the history of ‘General Hospital’, when she sustained HIV as a teenager.
Finola Hughes and Tristan Rogers in “General Hospital”
Thanks to ABC/Everett Collection
In one 2023 Interview with Variety To commemorate ‘General Hospital’ who turned 60, Rogers thought about his time in the show. He was cast by Gloria Monty, the executive producer who had saved the show of cancellation, and said that after he told her: “This is not the way an Australian would respond under these circumstances,” she gave him permission to make the dialogue of his own. “And that is what my steam rolling started by almost every script at that time,” he remembered.
