Actor

Joey D. Vieira

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Movies: 9Series: 6Crew credits: 1

TMDB ID: 20813

IMDb ID: nm0896649

Known for: Acting

Born: April 8, 1944

Died: April 7, 2025

Age: 80

Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1954 - 2014

Years active: 61

Average TMDB rating: 6.83

Wikidata: Q3180309

Also known as

Joey Viera

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Music (1)

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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.

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