Washington, Aug. 16 -- Tristan Rogers, who was best known for playing the role of Robert Scorpio on the daytime soap opera 'General Hospital', has passed away, his manager confirmed to ABC 7. He was 79, reported E! News.

Meryl Soodak shared that Rogers's cause of death was a battle with lung cancer, despite having not been a smoker.

"He loved being Scorpio and he created that role from nothing," Soodak shared with the outlet. "He was supposed to work a day and he ended up making it into something huge. He was just a genuinely loyal, kind human being and he loved his family."

The news comes less than a month after the Australian star revealed his lung cancer diagnosis, which coincided with his final appearance on General Hospital, as pe...