Joey D. Vieira
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 8, 1944
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Died
- April 7, 2025
Biography
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.
Movies with Joey D. Vieira
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off 1986 · ★ 7.6
- The Patriot 2000 · ★ 7.2
- Red Heat 1988 · ★ 6.2
- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice 1969 · ★ 6.3
- Free Enterprise 1998 · ★ 5.7
- Evel Knievel 1971 · ★ 4.9
- Monaco Forever 1984 · ★ 3.8
- The Private War of Major Benson 1955 · ★ 6.7
- Dwegons and Leprechauns 2014 · ★ 1.4
- Farticus 1997 · ★ 10.0