Joey D. Vieira

Known for ActingBorn 1944-04-08Died 2025-04-07Los Angeles, California, USA

Joseph Douglas Vieira, known as Joey D. Vieira (born April 8, 1944), is an American film and television actor. He began as a child actor using the professional name Donald Keeler playing chubby, beanie-wearing farm boy, Sylvester "Porky" Brockway in the first several seasons (1954–57) of TV's Lassie (retitled Jeff's Collie in syndicated reruns and on DVD). Vieira borrowed the professional surname from his aunt, Ruby Keeler, star of numerous Warner Bros. musicals in the 1930s. Other early TV appearances include The Pride of the Family, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Shirley Temple's Storybook, and My Three Sons. Film appearances include The Private War of Major Benson (1955) with Charlton Heston and The Patriot (2000) with Mel Gibson in which he played as Peter Howard. Vieira has also written, produced and directed.Read more

Movies & web series

Farticus

Married... with Children

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Moonlighting

The Patriot

Remington Steele

Brer Rabbit's Christmas Carol

The Private War of Major Benson

Red Heat

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Lassie

Free Enterprise

Hank

Monaco Forever

Dwegons and Leprechauns