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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.
77 Sunset Strip is the office of two private detectives, Stu Bailey (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.) and Jeff Spencer (Roger Smith), both of whom are former secret agents. They’re right next door to an upscale restaurant, Dino’s Lodge where Gerald Lloyd Kookson II, aka Kookie, (a hipster played by Edd Byrnes) works as a valet and provides some comic ...
Jan 10, 2020 · Byrnes was best known as Kookie on the private-detective series "77 Sunset Strip," which ran from ran from 1958 to 1964. Byrnes played a hip parking attendant at a Hollywood nightclub who...
6 Episodes 2022. Learn more about the full cast of 77 Sunset Strip with news, photos, videos and more at TV Guide.
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Jan 10, 2020 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 “Grease,” has died. He was 87.
Jan 10, 2020 · LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 “Grease,” has died.
Jan 16, 2020 · CHICAGO – In the strange old days of three TV Networks and the fan-based crossovers that would come out of it, there was Gerald “Kookie” Kookson the Third of the ABC-TV. show “77 Sunset...
