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Joey D. Vieira
Los Angeles, California, USA
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…
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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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2014
Dwegons and Leprechauns
Movie Davargan / Yabo Potato / Sweetfang / Clyde
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2000
The Patriot
Movie Peter Howard
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1998
Free Enterprise
Movie Hal Pittman
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1997
Farticus
Movie Dionysus
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1992
Brer Rabbit's Christmas Carol
Movie Music
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1988
Red Heat
Movie Man at Phone Booth
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1987
Married... with Children
TV show Ernest
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1986
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Movie Pizza Man
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1985
Moonlighting
TV show Delivery Man
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1984
Monaco Forever
Movie Narrator (as Joey Vieira)
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1982
Remington Steele
TV show Henchman
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1969
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Movie Dishwasher (uncredited)
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1965
Hank
TV show
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1959
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
TV show Bobby Wilkins (as Donald Keeler)
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1955
The Private War of Major Benson
Movie Cadet Cpl. Scawalski (as Donald Keeler)
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1954
Lassie
TV show
