Actor Edd Byrnes is best known for his starring role in the ABC television
detective series 77 Sunset Strip (1958 to 1964). He was also in the 1978
film Grease. Edd Byrnes ranked #5 in TV Guide’s list of “TV’s 25 Greatest
Teen Idols” (January 23, 2005). Byrnes wrote an autobiography in 1996
entitled “Kookie No More”.

 
Edd Byrnes as Gerald Lloyd "Kookie" Kookson III