Michael Hynson, co-star of the definitive surf movie “The Endless Summer,” died Friday ... poster defined a generation and whose fashion choices rubbed off on most everyone around him ...

His wild, steamship-hopping tour landed him at “the perfect wave” in Cape St. Francis, South Africa, and inspired The Endless Summer, one of the most watched and beloved films of all time.

Mike Hynson, a California surfer whose globe-trotting hunt for the perfect wave in the documentary “The Endless Summer” made him an ambassador of 1960s cool with sea-slicked blond hair and a ...