{"id":149625,"date":"2025-08-16T04:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149625\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T04:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T04:38:12","slug":"tristan-rogers-longtime-general-hospital-actor-dies-at-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149625\/","title":{"rendered":"Tristan Rogers, longtime ‘General Hospital’ actor, dies at 79"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tristan Rogers, who played legacy character Robert Scorpio on ABC\u2019s \u201cGeneral Hospital,\u201d<\/a> died Friday, less than one month after he made a special appearance on the soap opera. He was 79.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire \u2018General Hospital\u2019 family is heartbroken to hear of Tristan Rogers\u2019 passing,\u201d said Frank Valentini, the show\u2019s executive producer, in a statement. \u201cTristan has captivated our fans for 45 years and Port Charles will not be the same without him (or Robert Scorpio).\u201d<\/p>\n

Born in Melbourne, Australia, Rogers\u2019 first foray into performing was in his early twenties and playing drums in a rock band with a group of friends. They weren\u2019t successful so Rogers turned to commercial work and modeling to earn some money. When the band dissolved, Rogers decided to give acting a try. After various roles in Australia, he also worked as a DJ and eventually moved to Los Angeles to try to break into Hollywood. He said casting directors were initially turned off by his accent but he eventually landed a two-day role on \u201cGeneral Hospital\u201d in 1980.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had no idea at the point how big the show was,\u201d Rogers told fellow \u201cGeneral Hospital\u201d actor Maurice Benard on the YouTube show, \u201cState of Mind with Maurice Benard\u201d in 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had no name. I was brought in expressly to beat up the hero, Luke, (played by Anthony Geary), and then disappear,\u201d Rogers said. His first day was half-over when then-executive producer Gloria Monty asked if he would like to stay on. They had no character written for him so for three weeks Monty asked him to just appear in scenes \u201clooking furtive, looking suspicious\u201d until they came up with a storyline. It was decided he would play a spy known as \u201cCK8\u201d and eventually he was given the name Robert Scorpio. The character would remain a fixture in Port Charles for the rest of Rogers\u2019 life, even when he wasn\u2019t a current cast member.<\/p>\n

Scorpio\u2019s on again\/off again romance with Emma Samms\u2019 character, Holly Sutton, remained a favorite among fans. Scorpio also had a romance, and many storylines with another spy, Anna Devane, played by Finola Hughes. Scorpio and Devane shared a daughter, Robin, played by Kimberly McCullough. Samms returned to the show for a stint last fall where it was revealed that Scorpio was the father of her adult daughter, Sasha Gilmore (played by Sofia Mattson.) <\/p>\n

Rogers and Samms left the show together in November 2024 in scenes taped with a nod to \u201cCasablanca.\u201d He returned to the show in July for one episode when Sasha arrived to his home in France with her new baby. It was then revealed that Rogers had lung cancer <\/p>\n

Rogers\u2019 other acting credits include \u201cThe Bold and the Beautiful,\u201d \u201cThe Young & the Restless\u201d and \u201cStudio City,\u201d which won him outstanding supporting actor in a digital drama series at the Daytime Emmy Awards. He is survived by his wife, Teresa Parkerson, and a daughter and a son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tristan Rogers, who played legacy character Robert Scorpio on ABC\u2019s \u201cGeneral Hospital,\u201d died Friday, less than one month…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[88028,88025,2122,276,435,1899,168,88019,171,88020,88024,57,88023,88029,88027,224,88021,18929,975,12299,88018,88026,88022,399,87887,61,67,132,68,107],"class_list":{"0":"post-149625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-anna-devane","9":"tag-anthony-geary","10":"tag-arts-and-entertainment","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-celebrity","13":"tag-celebrity-deaths","14":"tag-domestic-news","15":"tag-emma-samms","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-finola-hughes","18":"tag-frank-valentini","19":"tag-general-news","20":"tag-gloria-monty","21":"tag-holly-sutton","22":"tag-kimberly-mccullough","23":"tag-los-angeles","24":"tag-maurice-benard","25":"tag-melbourne","26":"tag-music","27":"tag-notable-deaths","28":"tag-robert-scorpio","29":"tag-sasha-gilmore","30":"tag-sofia-mattson","31":"tag-television","32":"tag-tristan-rogers","33":"tag-u-s-news","34":"tag-united-states","35":"tag-unitedstates","36":"tag-us","37":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115036599836971563","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}