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Question: Whatever happened to local entertainer Al Harrington? Harrington
has been portraying
Indians in filmsAnswer: The former headliner at the Outrigger Reef Towers Polynesian Palace moved to the mainland in the early 1990s. After some years living in Utah and working as a motivational speaker, he now lives in Los Angeles and is "trying to break back into business in Hollywood."
Watch for him in a made-for-TV movie, "Long Road Home," which will be aired later this year, Harrington said. He plays a Navajo Indian in modern times.
"I've been playing a lot of Indians," said the actor-singer who was billed as "the South Pacific Man" during his 10-year stint on the Waikiki stage. "Not much is being written or produced about island themes." He played a village chief in the 1994 Disney movie "White Fang 2."
Visitors to Salt Lake City may see Harrington in a movie shown at the Joseph Smith Building next to the Mormon Tabernacle. He played a prophet in "The Testament," an introduction to the beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, of which he is a member.
His last appearance in Hawaii was in 1996 at Kumu Kahua theater in a Hawaiian version of Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello." He played the title role.
Harrington said he gets back to Hawaii a couple times a year to visit his son, Tau, and family.
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