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Tristan Rogers has said his final goodbye. The Australian-born actor, who played Robert Scorpio on General Hospital off and on since 1980, died on August 15 at the age of 79. When last we saw the former WSB agent, he had reunited with daughter Sasha, who had fled Port Charles for fear that newborn Daisy was being targeted by the Mob.

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The actor began his showbiz career in the ’70s in his native country, appearing on a number of soaps Down Under like Bellbird, Number 96 and The Box. He was even a regular on the short-lived police drama The Link Men. Maybe his character, Detective Constable Ray Gamble, had some bearing on Robert’s own law enforcement background, as Tristan’s big break came when he landed his General Hospital role, that of Port Charles’ answer to 007.

Rogers’ initial run on the daytime drama lasted a dozen years. During that time, he was successfully paired with one leading lady (Demi Moore as Jackie Templeton) after another (Emma Samms as Holly Sutton) after another (Finola Hughes as Anna Devane). But life didn’t slow down while he was on breaks from the ABC show.

In 1997, he recurred on The Bold and the Beautiful as private eye Hunter Jones. And Rogers hopped over to the show’s sister soap on CBS in 2010, playing conniving Colin Atkinson on The Young and the Restless. He even earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the Indie Series Awards for his work on web soap The Bay and won Best Supporting Actor in a Digital Drama Series Emmy for his role as Doc in Sean Kanan’s Amazon series, Studio City.

More: Relive Robert Scorpio’s adventures in photos

Outside of daytime, Rogers starred in Showtime’s stock-car racing drama Fast Track in ’97, voiced Jake, the kangaroo mouse, in 1990’s The Rescuers Down Under and played Home Guard leader Malcolm Biggs in a Season 1 episode of the space opera, Babylon 5, opposite General Hospital‘s own Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis).