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.
Acting
Movie
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
as Pizza Man
1986
Movie
The Patriot
as Peter Howard
2000
Movie
Red Heat
as Man at Phone Booth
1988
TV
Married... with Children
as Ernest
1987
TV
Moonlighting
as Delivery Man
1985
TV
Remington Steele
as Henchman
1982
Movie
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
as Dishwasher (uncredited)
1969
TV
Lassie
1954
Movie
Free Enterprise
as Hal Pittman
1998
Movie
Monaco Forever
as Narrator (as Joey Vieira)
1984
TV
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
as Bobby Wilkins (as Donald Keeler)
1959
Movie
The Private War of Major Benson
as Cadet Cpl. Scawalski (as Donald Keeler)
1955
Movie
Dwegons and Leprechauns
as Davargan / Yabo Potato / Sweetfang / Clyde
2014
TV
Hank
1965
Movie
Farticus
as Dionysus
1997
