Vera Miles
Vera June Miles (born August 23, 1929) is an American actress. Born in Boise City, Oklahoma, Vera Miles attended school in Pratt, Kansas and Wichita, Kansas. The patrician beauty of Miss Miles won her the title of "Miss Kansas" in 1948, leading soon to small roles in Hollywood films and television series. Fame came to the forthright, spirited Miles when she attracted the attention of two master directors, Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford. Ford cast her in the classic western The Searchers (1956) and Hitchcock, who put her under personal contract and hailed her as his "new Grace Kelly", paired her with the great Henry Fonda in The Wrong Man (1956). Hitchcock cast Miles in the potentially star-making role of Judy Barton in Vertigo (1958), but Miles withdrew from the film when she became pregnant. Hitchcock gave Miles a supporting role in another masterpiece Psycho (1960), as did Ford when he cast her opposite John Wayne and James Stewart in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), She also starred in such films as Beau James (1957) opposite Bob Hope, The FBI Story (1959) opposite Stewart, Back Street (1961) opposite Susan Hayward and John Gavin and Sergeant Ryker (1968) opposite Lee Marvin, as well as showing her consistently remarkable and versatile talent on dozens of popular television movies and series including The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962), Twilight Zone (1959), The Outer Limits (1963), The Fugitive (1963), My Three Sons (1960), Bonanza (1959), "Columbo" and Murder, She Wrote (1984). In 1983, she reprised her role as "Lila Crane" in the film sequel Psycho II (1983), starring Anthony Perkins. Although, too often, the stunningly beautiful Miles' gifts were underutilized, before her retirement in 1995, hers was a most intriguing and enduring Hollywood career.
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Films (76)
Separate Lives
1995 · Dr. Ruth Goldin
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
1989 · Sophie Kubacki
International Airport
1985 · Elaine Corley
Into the Night
1985 · Joan Caper
The Initiation
1984 · Frances Fairchild
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
1984 · Kate Keller
BrainWaves
1983 · Marian Koonan
Psycho II
1983 · Lila Loomis
Travis McGee
1983 · Julie Lawless
Mazes and Monsters
1982 · Cat
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982 · Self
Our Family Business
1981 · Patricia
Roughnecks
1980 · Ida McBride
The Horror Show
1979 · (archive footage)
And I Alone Survived
1978 · Irene Elder
Run for the Roses
1977 · Clarissa Stewart
Fire!
1977 · Martha Wagner
State Fair
1976 · Melissa Bryant
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976 · Mrs. Horton
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
1976 · Erica
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
1974 · Christine Rhodes
The Castaway Cowboy
1974 · Henrietta MacAvoy
The Underground Man
1974 · Eleanor Strom
Live Again, Die Again
1974 · Marcia Carmichael
Runaway!
1973 · Ellen Staffo
One Little Indian
1973 · Doris
Baffled!
1973 · Andrea Glenn
Molly and Lawless John
1972 · Molly Parker
A Great American Tragedy
1972 · Gloria Wilkes
Jigsaw
1972 · Lilah Beth Cummings
A Howling in the Woods
1971 · Rose Staines
Cannon
1971 · Diana Langston
In Search of America
1971 · Jenny Olson
The Wild Country
1970 · Kate Tanner
Journey to the Unknown
1969 · June Wiley
It Takes All Kinds
1969 · Laura Ring
Hellfighters
1968 · Madelyn Buckman
Mission Batangas
1968 · Joan Barnes
Kona Coast
1968 · Melissa Hyde
Sergeant Ryker
1968 · Ann Ryker
Gentle Giant
1967 · Ellen Wedloe
The Spirit Is Willing
1967 · Kate Powell
Follow Me, Boys!
1966 · Vida Downey
One of Our Spies Is Missing
1966 · Madame Raine De Sala
The Hanged Man
1964 · Lois Seeger
Those Calloways
1964 · Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
The Unknown
1964 · Kassia Paine
A Tiger Walks
1964 · Dorothy Williams
Recoil
1963 · Lucy
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962 · Hallie Stoddard
Back Street
1961 · Liz Saxon
The Lawbreakers
1961 · Angela Walsh
Psycho
1960 · Lila Crane
Five Branded Women
1960 · Daniza
A Touch of Larceny
1960 · Virginia Killain
The FBI Story
1959 · Lucy Ann Hardesty
Web of Evidence
1959 · Lena Anderson
Panic Button
1957 · Carolyn Cook
Beau James
1957 · Betty Compton
The Wrong Man
1956 · Rose Balestrero
Autumn Leaves
1956 · Virginia Hanson
23 Paces to Baker Street
1956 · Jean Lennox
The Searchers
1956 · Laurie Jorgensen
The House Without a Name
1956 · Vera
Man on the Ledge
1955 · Virginia
Rookie of the Year
1955 · Ruth Dahlberg
Wichita
1955 · Laurie McCoy
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955 · Jill Hardy
Pride of the Blue Grass
1954 · Linda
So Big
1953 · Girl (uncredited)
The Charge at Feather River
1953 · Jennie McKeever
The Rose Bowl Story
1952 · Denny Burke
For Men Only
1952 · Kathy
Two Tickets to Broadway
1951 · Showgirl (uncredited)
The Screen Writer
1950 · Young Actress (uncredited)
When Willie Comes Marching Home
1950 · Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)
Séries (70)
Crazy like a Fox
1984 · Georgina Burton
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Elizabeth Gates, Charmaine Calloway Thompson, Nancy Landon
Finder of Lost Loves
1984 · Joanna Shaw
Matt Houston
1982
Hotel
1982 · Teresa Clayborne, Millie Broom
Magnum, P.I.
1980 · Joan Gibson
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979 · Tora
Fantasy Island
1978 · Martha Tate
La croisière s'amuse
1977 · Bess Hensinger, Eve Springer
How the West Was Won
1977 · Beth
McNaughton's Daughter
1976 · Grace Coventry
Ellery Queen
1975 · Celeste Wakefield
Movin' On
1974
Little House on the Prairie
1974 · Ruthy Leland
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971 · Nancy Hodges
Columbo
1971 · Viveca Scott
Cannon
1971 · Vivian Cabe
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Dan August
1970 · Carla
Medical Center
1969 · Dr. Gloria Hall
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969 · Helen Wagner, Janet Devaney
Hawaii Five-O
1969 · Flora Whiting
Journey to the Unknown
1968 · June Wiley
The Name of the Game
1968 · Marisa Cummings, Tracy Cannon
Mannix
1967 · Jean McBride
Judd, for the Defense
1967
Ironside
1967 · Barbara Richards, Barbara Jones, Gloria Campbell
Hollywood Squares
1966 · Self, Self - Center Square
ABC Stage 67
1966 · Adele
The F.B.I.
1965 · Kate Burke
I Spy
1965 · Rachel
Run for Your Life
1965 · Rachel Pike
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964 · Madame Raine De Sala
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963 · Ann Ryker
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963 · Beth
Mr. Novak
1963 · Sister Gervaise
Burke's Law
1963 · Claudia Sutton
The Fugitive
1963 · Monica Welles
The Outer Limits
1963 · Kassia Paine
Arrest and Trial
1963 · Jean Forbes
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962 · Daphne, Nicky Revere
The Virginian
1962 · Miss Wallace, Maggie Menken
Sam Benedict
1962
The Dick Powell Show
1961 · Stella Calman
The Asphalt Jungle
1961
Route 66
1960 · Ellen Barnes
My Three Sons
1960 · Ernestine Coulter
The Detectives
1959 · Lucy
Startime
1959 · Jean Medwick
The Twilight Zone
1959 · Millicent Barnes
Riverboat
1959 · Jeanette Mowbray
Bonanza
1959 · April Christopher, Sarah Lowell
Rawhide
1959 · Helen Walsh
Wagon Train
1957 · Sister Rita, Janice Stuart
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956 · Jenny Breckenridge
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955 · Ruth Dahlberg
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955 · Virginia
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955 · Elsa Spann
Gunsmoke
1955 · Dr. Sam
The Millionaire
1955 · Merle Roberts
Climax!
1954 · Sally Jordan, Jan Michaels, Janet Reese
Studio 57
1954 · The Little Girl's Mother
City Detective
1953
General Electric Theater
1953 · Terry, Mrs. Eaton, Nora Douglas, Debra Stone
The Ford Television Theatre
1952 · Nancy Carr
Four Star Playhouse
1952 · Maggie, Julie Tolin
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Julie, Sarah Larkin
Lux Video Theatre
1950 · Maureen O'Reilly, Christine Carroll Kimberly, Jenny, Audrey O'Connor
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · Self