Tristan Rogers, who played legacy character Robert Scorpio on ABC’s “General Hospital,” died Friday, less than one month after he made a special appearance on the soap opera. He was 79.

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

The late soap opera star revealed the type of cancer he had one month before he died. Learn what happened to Tristan as fan mourn him.