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During the run of 77 Sunset Strip, Byrnes, as the "Kookie" character, was a popular celebrity, and Byrnes received fan-mail that reached 15,000 letters a week, according to Picture Magazine in 1961; this rivalled most early rock recording-stars of the day.
Jan 10, 2020 · USA TODAY. 0:04. 0:41. Edd Byrnes, an actor best known for his roles in 1978's "Grease" and the 1950s series "77 Sunset Strip," died Wednesday at his home in Santa Monica. He was 87....
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Jan 10, 2020 · Edd Byrnes, who played cool kid Kookie on the hit TV show “77 Sunset Strip,” scored a gold record with a song about his character’s hair-combing obsession and later appeared in the movie...
Jan 9, 2020 · January 9, 2020 2:15pm. ABC/Photofest. Edd Byrnes, who gained fleeting fame as Kookie, the ultra-hip, wisecracking parking attendant on the jazzy 1950s-’60s ABC detective series 77 Sunset...
By Matt Schudel. January 10, 2020 at 7:20 p.m. EST. Edd Byrnes, a onetime teen heartthrob who parlayed his popularity as the hair-slicking hipster Kookie on the TV detective series “77 Sunset...
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Jan 9, 2020 · Edd Byrnes, who became one of television’s first teen idols as Kookie — the hair-combing, jive-talking youth on the hit series “77 Sunset Strip” — but found ever after that he could not...
Jan 9, 2020 · Edd “Kookie” Byrnes, the 77 Sunset Strip actor whose wavy hair and penchant for combing it made him an early TV teen idol, died Thursday of natural causes at his Santa Monica home,...
