
Cast
Acting
Cast
Known for
Acting
Born
1944-04-08
From
Los Angeles, California, USA
Died
2025-04-07
Also known as Joey Viera
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 (1954β57) 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.

as Peter Howard

as Pizza Man

as Man at Phone Booth

as Dishwasher (uncredited)

as Cadet Cpl. Scawalski (as Donald Keeler)

as Dionysus

as Davargan / Yabo Potato / Sweetfang / Clyde

as Hal Pittman

as Narrator (as Joey Vieira)