Vera Miles
Actor
Born August 23, 1930 in Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
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.
Filmography
Separate Lives
Dr. Ruth Goldin
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
Sophie Kubacki
International Airport
Elaine Corley
Into the Night
Joan Caper
Crazy like a Fox
Georgina Burton
The Initiation
Frances Fairchild
Murder, She Wrote
Elizabeth Gates
Finder of Lost Loves
Joanna Shaw
BrainWaves
Marian Koonan
Psycho II
Lila Loomis
Travis McGee
Julie Lawless
Mazes and Monsters
Cat
Matt Houston
Hotel
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
Our Family Business
Patricia
Magnum, P.I.
Joan Gibson
Roughnecks
Ida McBride
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Tora
The Horror Show
(archive footage)
And I Alone Survived
Irene Elder
Fantasy Island
Martha Tate
The Love Boat
Bess Hensinger
Run for the Roses
Clarissa Stewart
Fire!
Martha Wagner
How the West Was Won
Beth
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Mrs. Horton
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
Erica
Ellery Queen
Celeste Wakefield
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
Christine Rhodes
Movin' On
Little House on the Prairie
Ruthy Leland
The Castaway Cowboy
Henrietta MacAvoy
The Underground Man
Eleanor Strom
Live Again, Die Again
Marcia Carmichael
Runaway!
Ellen Staffo
One Little Indian
Doris
Baffled!
Andrea Glenn
Molly and Lawless John
Molly Parker
A Great American Tragedy
Gloria Wilkes
The Streets of San Francisco
Jigsaw
Lilah Beth Cummings
A Howling in the Woods
Rose Staines
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Nancy Hodges
Columbo
Viveca Scott
Cannon
Cannon
Diana Langston
In Search of America
Jenny Olson
Alias Smith and Jones
The Wild Country
Kate Tanner
Dan August
Carla
Medical Center
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Helen Wagner
Journey to the Unknown
June Wiley
It Takes All Kinds
Laura Ring
Hellfighters
Madelyn Buckman
Mission Batangas
Joan Barnes
Journey to the Unknown
June Wiley
Hawaii Five-O
Flora Whiting
The Name of the Game
Marisa Cummings
Kona Coast
Melissa Hyde
Sergeant Ryker
Ann Ryker
Gentle Giant
Ellen Wedloe
Mannix
Jean McBride
Judd, for the Defense
The Spirit Is Willing
Kate Powell
Ironside
Barbara Richards
Follow Me, Boys!
Vida Downey
One of Our Spies Is Missing
Madame Raine De Sala
Hollywood Squares
Self
ABC Stage 67
Adele
The F.B.I.
Kate Burke
I Spy
Rachel
Run for Your Life
Rachel Pike
The Hanged Man
Lois Seeger
Those Calloways
Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Madame Raine De Sala
The Unknown
Kassia Paine
A Tiger Walks
Dorothy Williams
Recoil
Lucy
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Ann Ryker
Mr. Novak
Sister Gervaise
Burke's Law
Claudia Sutton
The Fugitive
Monica Welles
The Outer Limits
Kassia Paine
Arrest and Trial
Jean Forbes
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Daphne
The Virginian
Miss Wallace
Sam Benedict
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Hallie Stoddard
Back Street
Liz Saxon
The Dick Powell Show
Stella Calman
The Lawbreakers
Angela Walsh
The Asphalt Jungle
Route 66
Ellen Barnes
My Three Sons
Ernestine Coulter
Psycho
Lila Crane
Five Branded Women
Daniza
A Touch of Larceny
Virginia Killain
The Detectives
Lucy
Startime
Jean Medwick
The Twilight Zone
Millicent Barnes
The FBI Story
Lucy Ann Hardesty
Riverboat
Jeanette Mowbray
Bonanza
April Christopher
Web of Evidence
Lena Anderson
Rawhide
Wagon Train
Sister Rita
Beau James
Betty Compton
The Wrong Man
Rose Balestrero
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Jenny Breckenridge
Autumn Leaves
Virginia Hanson
23 Paces to Baker Street
Jean Lennox
The Searchers
Laurie Jorgensen
The House Without a Name
Man on the Ledge
Virginia
Screen Director's Playhouse
Ruth Dahlberg
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Virginia
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Elsa Spann
Gunsmoke
Dr. Sam
Wichita
Laurie McCoy
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Jill Hardy
The Millionaire
Merle Roberts
Climax!
Sally Jordan
Studio 57
The Little Girl's Mother
Pride of the Blue Grass
Linda
So Big
Girl (uncredited)
City Detective
The Charge at Feather River
Jennie McKeever
General Electric Theater
Terry
The Ford Television Theatre
Nancy Carr
Four Star Playhouse
Maggie
The Rose Bowl Story
Denny Burke
For Men Only
Kathy
Two Tickets to Broadway
Showgirl (uncredited)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Julie
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
When Willie Comes Marching Home
Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)