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, according to his ...

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Erin O’Brien, the singer and actress best known for starring in the pilot episode of “77 Sunset Strip,” has died at the age of 87. Sheila O’Brien, Erin’s sister, told The Hollywood Reporter that she ...

Edd Byrnes, a onetime teen heartthrob who parlayed his popularity as the hair-slicking hipster Kookie on the TV detective series “77 Sunset Strip” into a hit 1959 record, “Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your ...

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Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, ...

Erin O’Brien, the singer and actress best known for starring in the pilot episode of “77 Sunset Strip,” has died at the age of 87. Sheila O’Brien, Erin’s sister, told The Hollywood Reporter that she ...

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 ...