Overview

• Manager Meryl Soodak told ABC that Rogers died Friday morning of lung cancer despite having never smoked
• His death comes weeks after he disclosed his cancer diagnosis and made a surprise on-screen return to Port Charles on July 17
• General Hospital executive producer Frank Valentini led tributes, calling Rogers’s 45-year portrayal of Robert Scorpio indispensable to the show
• Rogers first joined General Hospital in late 1980, appeared in over 1,400 episodes and anchored the soap’s early-’80s golden era
• Beyond his soap legacy, he won a Daytime Emmy in 2020 for Studio City and is survived by his wife, two children and a grandchild