{"id":3789,"date":"2025-08-16T18:28:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=3789"},"modified":"2025-08-16T18:28:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:28:28","slug":"general-hospital-star-passed-away-at-age-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=3789","title":{"rendered":"\u2018General Hospital\u2019 Star, Passed Away At Age 79"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Tristan Rogers Dies at 79<\/strong><br>Australian actor Tristan Rogers, best known as Robert Scorpio on&nbsp;<em>General Hospital<\/em>, has died at 79. His longtime manager, Meryl Soodak, confirmed his passing on Aug. 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Career on&nbsp;<em>General Hospital<\/em><\/strong><br>Rogers joined the soap in 1980 and quickly became a fan favorite. In July, it was revealed he had lung cancer despite never smoking. Soodak said portraying Robert Scorpio \u201cmeant everything\u201d to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.tiphero.com\/Copy-of-Frank-Borman-2025-08-15T192516.358.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-104212\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Defining Role<\/strong><br>\u201cHe loved being Scorpio and he created that role from nothing,\u201d Soodak said, noting he was hired for a single day but turned it into a decades-long career. She remembered him as \u201ca genuinely loyal, kind human being.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Beyond the Soap<\/strong><br>Outside&nbsp;<em>General Hospital<\/em>, Rogers acted in films like&nbsp;<em>Delirious<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Night Eyes 3<\/em>, appeared in series such as&nbsp;<em>The Young and the Restless<\/em>, and voiced characters in animated shows and video games, including&nbsp;<em>Mortal Kombat<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tristan Rogers, longtime &#039;General Hospital&#039; star, dies at 79\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yl-gSNdHxFw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tristan Rogers Dies at 79Australian actor Tristan Rogers, best known as Robert Scorpio on&nbsp;General Hospital, has died at 79. His longtime manager, Meryl Soodak, confirmed his passing on Aug. 15. Career on&nbsp;General HospitalRogers joined the soap in 1980 and quickly became a fan favorite. In July, it was revealed he had lung cancer despite never&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3791,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions\/3791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}