
Known for
Acting
Born
April 8, 1944
Birthplace
Los Angeles, California, USA
Died
April 7, 2025 (aged 80)
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 H...
2014
as Davargan / Yabo Potato / Sweetfang / Clyde
2000
as Peter Howard
1998
as Hal Pittman
1997
as Dionysus
1992
1988
as Man at Phone Booth
1987
1986
as Pizza Man
1985
1984
as Narrator (as Joey Vieira)
1982
1971
as Lunch Truck Driver
1969
as Dishwasher (uncredited)
1965
1959
1955
as Cadet Cpl. Scawalski (as Donald Keeler)
1954