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Edd Byrnes
Highest Rated: 78% Back to the Beach (1987)
Lowest Rated: 14% Troop Beverly Hills (1989)
Birthday: Jul 30, 1933
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
During the late 1950s and early 60s, Edd Byrnes was a bona fide TV star, receiving in excess of 15,000 fan letters a week. As Gerald Lloyd 'Kookie' Kookson III, the jive-talking, ultra-cool parking lot attendant, on the hit ABC series "77 Sunset Strip," the actor created one of the nascent medium's better known characters. Byrnes, however, was unable to translate his small screen success into a lasting career. Despite periodic "comebacks," he has seemingly been relegated to the status of an answer to a trivia question.
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14% | 62% | Troop Beverly Hills | Ross Coleman (Character) | $7.9M | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | Mankillers | Jack Marra (Character) | - | 1987 |
| 78% | 63% | Back to the Beach | Valet (Character) | $12.2M | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vegas | Billy Brogan (Character) | - | 1978 |
| 66% | 87% | Grease | Vince Fontaine (Character) | $305.3K | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Telethon | Charlie Burton (Character) | - | 1977 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Where the Action Is | Eddie Vallance (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mobile Two | Roger Brice (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Killing Game | Unknown (Character) | - | 1975 |
| No Score Yet | 47% | Stardust | TV Interviewer (Character) | - | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | 28% | Wicked, Wicked | Henry Peter "Hank" Lassiter (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gift of Terror | Les Parker (Character) | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Silent Gun | Joe Henning (Character) | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Winchester for Hire | Stuart (Character) | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Renegade Riders | Stewart (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Red Blood, Yellow Gold | Chattanooga Jim (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | For a Few Bullets More | Clayton - The Banker (Character) | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Beach Ball | Dick (Character) | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | 70% | The Secret Invasion | Simon Fell (Character) | - | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Yellowstone Kelly | Anse Harper (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | Up Periscope | Pharmacist Mate Ash (Character) | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Marjorie Morningstar | Sandy Lamm (Character) | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | Darby's Rangers | Lt. Arnold Dittman (Character) | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Life Begins at 17 | Jim Barker (Character) | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Girl on the Run | Kenneth Smiley (Character) | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Reform School Girl | Vince (Character) | - | 1957 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Freddie Major (Guest Star) | 1990 1993 1995 |
| 50% | No Score Yet | Deadly Games | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
| 43% | No Score Yet | Burke's Law | Cassidy (Guest Star) | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | 98% | Married ... With Children | Himself (Guest Star) | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Simon & Simon |
Barry L. Fastman/ |
1984 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasy Island | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 1980 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charlie's Angels | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | B.J. and the Bear | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979-1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | CHiPs | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1978 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Woman | Billy Dodge (Guest Star) | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marcus Welby, M.D. | John Trask (Guest Star) | 1974 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alias Smith and Jones | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Adam-12 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mannix | Clay (Guest Star) | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 77 Sunset Strip | Gerald Lloyd Kookson III (Character) | 1958-1963 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Surfside 6 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lawman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sugarfoot | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cheyenne | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1957-1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. Belvedere | Unknown (Guest Star) |