Joey D. Vieira
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.
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Credits
- 2014 · Dwegons and Leprechauns as Davargan / Yabo Potato / Sweetfang / Clyde
- 2005 · Kitchen Confidential as
- 2000 · The Patriot as Peter Howard
- 1997 · Farticus as Dionysus
- 1988 · Red Heat as Man at Phone Booth
- 1987 · Married... with Children as Ernest
- 1986 · Ferris Bueller's Day Off as Pizza Man
- 1985 · Moonlighting as Delivery Man
- 1982 · Remington Steele as Henchman
- 1969 · Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice as Dishwasher (uncredited)
- 1965 · Hank as
- 1959 · The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis as Bobby Wilkins (as Donald Keeler)
- 1955 · The Private War of Major Benson as Cadet Cpl. Scawalski (as Donald Keeler)
- 1954 · Lassie as