Tristan Rogers, actor who performed Robert Scorpio on ‘Basic Hospital,’ dies at 79 after battle with lung most cancers

Tristan Rogers, the actor whose profession spanned a long time and was marked by his well-known portrayal of Robert Scorpio on ABC’s daytime tv cleaning soap opera “Basic Hospital,” has died. He was 79.

Rogers’ demise was confirmed by his longtime supervisor, Meryl Soodak, who instructed ABC7 leisure reporter George Pennacchio that the actor handed away Friday morning after a battle with lung most cancers. Soodak famous that Rogers had by no means been a smoker.

The actor’s position on “Basic Hospital” “meant the whole lot to him,” his supervisor stated. “He beloved being Scorpio and he created that position from nothing. He was presupposed to work a day and he ended up making it into one thing big. He was only a genuinely loyal, variety human being and he beloved his household.”

Rogers portrayed Scorpio on the cleaning soap opera intermittently over the course of 45 years.

He’s survived by his spouse, two youngsters and a grandchild.

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