Joey D. Vieira

Active - 1955 - 2014  |   Birth - Apr 8, 1944  |   Genres - Comedy, Action-Adventure, Drama, Animation, Family | Subgenres - Buddy Cop Film, Buddy Film, Coming-Of-Age Fiction, Historical Film, LGBT-Related Film

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Joseph Douglas Vieira, known as Joey D. Vieira, 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. Vieira borrowed the professional surname from his aunt, Ruby Keeler, star of numerous Warner Bros. musicals in the 1930s. Lassie won two Emmys during his run on the series. Vieira and costar Tommy Rettig jointly accepted the show's second Emmy at the awards ceremony in 1956.

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