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Updated at 1:56 p.m., Thursday, July 5, 2007

Former Islander Brian Keith set for Walk of Fame star

By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Writer

Brian Keith, the late actor who worked and lived in Hawai'i in the early 1970s, is en route to earning a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The ceremony is tentatively planned for June 21, the date in 1961 when his most popular film, "The Parent Trap," made its debut.

Keith starred as a pediatrician in NBC's "The Brian Keith Show," filmed in the Islands between 1972 and '74. The program was dubbed "The Little People" in its first season and its upstart extras included Kelly Preston, now 42, who was Kelly Kamalelehua Palzis at the time.

Keith also starred in CBS' "Family Affair" from 1966-'71, playing a surrogate father raising three orphans who were his brother's children.

The Walk of Fame effort is spearheaded by Lynn Walker of Ritzville, Wash., and is $11,000 short of the $25,000 required to get the star installed.

On the Web: www.hollywoodchamber.net/icons/walk_fame.asp

Reach Wayne Harada at wharada@honoluluadvertiser.com.