[3][4] Rogers received his equity card in 1955 while working in local theater in Lexington.

[2] His most notable theater roles include Broadway productions of The Great White Hope, The Corn is Green and for 2+1⁄2 years played Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

[3][6] He is perhaps best known for his roles on several daytime dramas, most notably as Ray Gardner on All My Children, Hawk Shayne on Guiding Light and as Dr. Martin Brandt on The Doctors.

He also starred in a series of Grape-Nuts cereal commercials that ran on television for 5 years.

[8] Rogers died in his sleep at his daughter's residence in Encinitas, California,[8] on March 2, 2021, at the age of 87.