Joey D. Vieira

{{Short description|American actor (1944–2025)}}

{{infobox person

| image = Donald Keeler Lassie circa 1956 (cropped).JPG

| caption = Vieira on Lassie, 1956

| name = Joey D. Vieira

| birth_name = Joseph Douglas Vieira

| other_names =Donald Keeler

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1944|04|08}}

| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2025|04|07|1944|04|08}}

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1955–2014

| relatives = Ken Weatherwax (half brother)
Ruby Keeler (aunt)

}}

Joseph Douglas Vieira (April 8, 1944 – April 7, 2025), known as Joey D. Vieira, was an American film and television actor. He began as a child actor using the professional name Donald Keeler playing Sylvester "Porky" Brockway in the first several seasons (1954–57) of Lassie. Vieira borrowed the professional surname from his aunt, Ruby Keeler, star of numerous Warner Bros. musicals in the 1930s.{{cite book |title=Whatever Became Of ...? Eighth Series |last=Lamparski |first=Richard |year=1982 |publisher=Crown Publishers |location=New York |isbn=0-517-54855-0 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/whateverbecameof0000lamp/page/230 230–31]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/whateverbecameof0000lamp/page/230}}

His other early TV appearances included recurring roles in The Pride of the Family and Hank, and guest appearances in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Shirley Temple's Storybook, and My Three Sons. Later in his career he appeared in episodes of Moonlighting, Remington Steele, and Married...With Children. His 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.{{Cite web |title=Joey D. Vieira {{!}} Actor, Composer, Writer |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0896649/?ref_=tt_cst_t_6 |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}} Vieira also wrote, produced, and directed.

He also had a music career in the 1970s and 1980s. One of his songs was sampled by the Tyler The Creator song "911/Mr.Lonely" on his album Flower Boy.{{Cite web |title=911 / Mr. Lonely by Tyler, the Creator feat. Frank Ocean, Steve Lacy and Anne of the North on WhoSampled |url=https://www.whosampled.com/Tyler,-the-Creator/911-Mr.-Lonely/#:~:text=of%20the%20North?-,%22911%20/%20Mr.,Gold%20Scabs%22%20by%20Dirty%20Projectors. |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=WhoSampled |language=en}}