Joey D. Vieira
Known for
Acting
Born
April 8, 1944
Birthplace
Los Angeles, California, USA
Died
April 7, 2025 (aged 80)
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 H...
Best known work
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986
The Patriot
2000
Red Heat
1988
Married... with Children
1987
Moonlighting
1985
Remington Steele
1982
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
1969
Lassie
1954
Free Enterprise
1998
Evel Knievel
1971Filmography
2014
Dwegons and Leprechaunsas Davargan / Yabo Potato / Sweetfang / Clyde
2000
The Patriotas Peter Howard
1998
Free Enterpriseas Hal Pittman
1997
Farticusas Dionysus
1992
1988
Red Heatas Man at Phone Booth
1987
1986
Ferris Bueller's Day Offas Pizza Man
1985
1984
Monaco Foreveras Narrator (as Joey Vieira)
1982
1971
Evel Knievelas Lunch Truck Driver
1969
Bob & Carol & Ted & Aliceas Dishwasher (uncredited)
1965
HankTV1959
1955
The Private War of Major Bensonas Cadet Cpl. Scawalski (as Donald Keeler)
1954
LassieTV