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Byrnes travelled to Europe where he made several films. He was featured as one of the convict commandos in 1964 in Roger Corman's The Secret Invasion. In 1965 he played Dick Martin in Beach Ball, then returned to Europe for several spaghetti westerns. Since then he has appeared in many television programs and movies. He played the role of the Dick Clark-like dance-show host Vince Fontaine, host of National Bandstand, in the 1978 movie Grease, and Ross Coleman in 1989 in Troop Beverly Hills.
In the mid-1970s, Byrnes hosted the pilots of Wheel of Fortune.
As a tribute to his enduring celebrity and his iconic "Kookie" character, Edd Byrnes has ranked #5 in TV Guide's list of "TV's 25 Greatest Teen Idols" (23 January 2005 issue).
Byrnes wrote an autobiography in 1996 entitled Kookie No More.
His son by Asa Maynor is Logan Byrnes, a news anchor for Fox Connecticut since 2008.
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