Joey D. Vieira

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1944-04-08 (80 years old)

Place of Birth Los Angeles, California, USA

Also Known As Joey Viera

Joey D. Vieira

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.

Known For

Actor

2014
Dwegons and Leprechauns

as Davargan / Yabo Potato / Sweetfang / Clyde

2000
The Patriot

as Peter Howard

1997
Farticus

as Dionysus

1988
Red Heat

as Man at Phone Booth

1986
1985
Moonlighting

as Delivery Man

1982
Remington Steele

as Henchman

1969
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

as Dishwasher (uncredited)

1965
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