Soap star Tristan Rogers, who has played Robert Scorpio since 1980, died from lung cancer, his longtime manager told multiple news outlets.

He became a fixture on the popular daytime television show as Robert Scorpio, a spy who became a police commissioner.

Tristan Rogers has died. The Australian-American actor was 79 years old. He was best known for playing Robert Scorpio on the ABC soap opera General Hospital and for voicing Jake in Walt Disney Pictures’ The Rescuers Down Under. He also portrayed Colin Atkinson on The Young and the Restless.