Cleaning soap opera star Tristan Rogers died on Friday, August 15. He was 79.
Rogers' longtime supervisor, Meryl Soodak, confirmed his demise on Friday, telling ABC News that the actor died that morning following a battle with lung most cancers.
Rogers was finest recognized for enjoying Robert Scorpio on Normal Hospital. His function on the cleaning soap opera, which spanned 45 years, “meant every little thing to him,” in response to Soodak.
“He cherished being Scorpio and he created that function from nothing. He was purported to work a day and he ended up making it into one thing enormous,” Rogers' rep recalled. “He was only a genuinely loyal, sort human being and he cherished his household.”
Rogers started his profession within the ‘70s, starring on Australian cleaning soap operas together with Bellbird, Quantity 96 and The Field in addition to 1997's The Hyperlink Males the place he performed Detective Constable Ray Gamble.
The late actor, who was born in Australia, made his solution to america TV panorama within the ‘80s. That very same yr, he landed the function of Scorpio on Normal Hospital. He appeared in additional than 1,400 episodes of the cleaning soap because the resident spy earlier than his demise. (Demi Moore's Jackie Templeton was one in all Scorpio's love pursuits through the ‘80s.)
When he wasn't filming Normal Hospital, Rogers' stayed within the cleaning soap opera world for almost all of his profession.
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He starred on The Daring and the Stunning in 1997 as Hunter Jones, P.I. earlier than showing on Normal Hospital: Evening Shift in 2008 as Scorpio. Rogers additionally starred on The Younger and the Stressed as Colin Atkinson from 2010 to 2019.
Rogers branched out of the cleaning soap realm whereas enjoying Commissioner Lex Martin on The Bay from 2010 to 2023 and portraying Doc on Studio Metropolis from 2019 to 2022.
Following his demise, the cleaning soap neighborhood mourned the loss, together with Normal Hospital alum Jon Lindstrom.
“I do know the unhappiness I really feel at this information is shared by so lots of you. #TristanRogers was one of many coolest, funniest folks I ever met,” Lindstrom, who performed Kevin Collins on the sequence from 1983 to 2024, wrote via X on Friday. “At any time when we have been collectively, which wasn't almost typically sufficient, we by no means missed an opportunity to attempt to crack the opposite one up. I want I'd had extra of these probabilities. R.I.P. #FlightOfAngels #Scorpio @GeneralHospital #GH.”
Chris L. McKenna, who started enjoying Jack Brennan on Normal Hospital this yr, paid tribute to Rogers as nicely.
“We fly the #WSB flags at half mast right now. The nice @tristanrogers aka Robert Scorpio has handed on,” he wrote via X. “All my like to Tristan's household and family members. He will probably be missed and by no means forgotten. #GH #RIPTristanRogers.”
Rogers is survived by his spouse, Teresa Parkerson, whom he wed in 1995, and their two youngsters, Sara Jane Rogers and Cale Rogers, in addition to one grandchild.
