Vera Miles
Biography
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.
Known For
All Movies (74)
- Separate Lives1995 · as Dr. Ruth Goldin
- The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro1989 · as Sophie Kubacki
- International Airport1985 · as Elaine Corley
- Into the Night1985 · as Joan Caper
- The Initiation1984 · as Frances Fairchild
- Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues1984 · as Kate Keller
- BrainWaves1983 · as Marian Koonan
- Psycho II1983 · as Lila Loomis
- Travis McGee1983 · as Julie Lawless
- Mazes and Monsters1982 · as Cat
- Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady1982
- Our Family Business1981 · as Patricia
- Roughnecks1980 · as Ida McBride
- The Horror Show1979 · as (archive footage)
- And I Alone Survived1978 · as Irene Elder
- Run for the Roses1977 · as Clarissa Stewart
- Fire!1977 · as Martha Wagner
- State Fair1976 · as Melissa Bryant
- Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys1976 · as Mrs. Horton
- Smash-Up on Interstate 51976 · as Erica
- The Strange and Deadly Occurrence1974 · as Christine Rhodes
- The Castaway Cowboy1974 · as Henrietta MacAvoy
- The Underground Man1974 · as Eleanor Strom
- Live Again, Die Again1974 · as Marcia Carmichael
- Runaway!1973 · as Ellen Staffo
- One Little Indian1973 · as Doris
- Baffled!1973 · as Andrea Glenn
- Molly and Lawless John1972 · as Molly Parker
- A Great American Tragedy1972 · as Gloria Wilkes
- Jigsaw1972 · as Lilah Beth Cummings
- A Howling in the Woods1971 · as Rose Staines
- Cannon1971 · as Diana Langston
- In Search of America1971 · as Jenny Olson
- The Wild Country1970 · as Kate Tanner
- Journey to the Unknown1969 · as June Wiley
- It Takes All Kinds1969 · as Laura Ring
- Hellfighters1968 · as Madelyn Buckman
- Mission Batangas1968 · as Joan Barnes
- Kona Coast1968 · as Melissa Hyde
- Sergeant Ryker1968 · as Ann Ryker
- Gentle Giant1967 · as Ellen Wedloe
- The Spirit Is Willing1967 · as Kate Powell
- Follow Me, Boys!1966 · as Vida Downey
- One of Our Spies Is Missing1966 · as Madame Raine De Sala
- The Hanged Man1964 · as Lois Seeger
- Those Calloways1964 · as Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
- The Unknown1964 · as Kassia Paine
- A Tiger Walks1964 · as Dorothy Williams
- Recoil1963 · as Lucy
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance1962 · as Hallie Stoddard
- Back Street1961 · as Liz Saxon
- The Lawbreakers1961 · as Angela Walsh
- Psycho1960 · as Lila Crane
- Five Branded Women1960 · as Daniza
- A Touch of Larceny1960 · as Virginia Killain
- The FBI Story1959 · as Lucy Ann Hardesty
- Web of Evidence1959 · as Lena Anderson
- Beau James1957 · as Betty Compton
- The Wrong Man1956 · as Rose Balestrero
- Autumn Leaves1956 · as Virginia Hanson
- 23 Paces to Baker Street1956 · as Jean Lennox
- The Searchers1956 · as Laurie Jorgensen
- The House Without a Name1956
- Man on the Ledge1955 · as Virginia
- Wichita1955 · as Laurie McCoy
- Tarzan's Hidden Jungle1955 · as Jill Hardy
- Pride of the Blue Grass1954 · as Linda
- So Big1953 · as Girl (uncredited)
- The Charge at Feather River1953 · as Jennie McKeever
- The Rose Bowl Story1952 · as Denny Burke
- For Men Only1952 · as Kathy
- Two Tickets to Broadway1951 · as Showgirl (uncredited)
- The Screen Writer1950 · as Young Actress (uncredited)
- When Willie Comes Marching Home1950 · as Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)
All TV Shows (97)
- Crazy like a Fox1984 · as Georgina Burton
- Murder, She Wrote1984 · as Elizabeth Gates
- Murder, She Wrote1984 · as Charmaine Calloway Thompson
- Murder, She Wrote1984 · as Nancy Landon
- Finder of Lost Loves1984 · as Joanna Shaw
- Matt Houston1982
- Hotel1982
- Hotel1982 · as Teresa Clayborne
- Hotel1982 · as Millie Broom
- Magnum, P.I.1980 · as Joan Gibson
- Buck Rogers in the 25th Century1979 · as Tora
- Fantasy Island1978 · as Martha Tate
- The Love Boat1977 · as Bess Hensinger
- The Love Boat1977 · as Eve Springer
- How the West Was Won1977 · as Beth
- McNaughton's Daughter1976 · as Grace Coventry
- Ellery Queen1975 · as Celeste Wakefield
- Movin' On1974
- Little House on the Prairie1974 · as Ruthy Leland
- The Streets of San Francisco1972
- Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law1971 · as Nancy Hodges
- Columbo1971 · as Viveca Scott
- Cannon1971
- Cannon1971 · as Vivian Cabe
- Alias Smith and Jones1971
- Dan August1970 · as Carla
- Medical Center1969
- Medical Center1969 · as Dr. Gloria Hall
- Marcus Welby, M.D.1969 · as Helen Wagner
- Marcus Welby, M.D.1969 · as Janet Devaney
- Journey to the Unknown1968 · as June Wiley
- Hawaii Five-O1968 · as Flora Whiting
- The Name of the Game1968 · as Marisa Cummings
- The Name of the Game1968 · as Tracy Cannon
- Mannix1967 · as Jean McBride
- Judd, for the Defense1967
- Ironside1967 · as Barbara Richards
- Ironside1967 · as Barbara Jones
- Ironside1967 · as Gloria Campbell
- ABC Stage 671966 · as Adele
- The F.B.I.1965 · as Kate Burke
- I Spy1965 · as Rachel
- Run for Your Life1965 · as Rachel Pike
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E.1964 · as Madame Raine De Sala
- Kraft Suspense Theatre1963 · as Ann Ryker
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre1963 · as Beth
- Mr. Novak1963 · as Sister Gervaise
- Burke's Law1963 · as Claudia Sutton
- The Fugitive1963 · as Monica Welles
- The Outer Limits1963 · as Kassia Paine
- Arrest and Trial1963 · as Jean Forbes
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour1962 · as Daphne
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour1962 · as Nicky Revere
- The Virginian1962 · as Miss Wallace
- The Virginian1962 · as Maggie Menken
- Sam Benedict1962
- The Dick Powell Show1961 · as Stella Calman
- The Asphalt Jungle1961
- Route 661960 · as Ellen Barnes
- My Three Sons1960 · as Ernestine Coulter
- The Detectives1959 · as Lucy
- Startime1959 · as Jean Medwick
- The Twilight Zone1959 · as Millicent Barnes
- Riverboat1959 · as Jeanette Mowbray
- Bonanza1959 · as Sarah Lowell
- Bonanza1959 · as April Christopher
- Rawhide1959
- Rawhide1959 · as Helen Walsh
- Wagon Train1957 · as Sister Rita
- Wagon Train1957 · as Janice Stuart
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre1956 · as Jenny Breckenridge
- Screen Director's Playhouse1955 · as Ruth Dahlberg
- The 20th Century Fox Hour1955 · as Virginia
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955 · as Elsa Spann
- Gunsmoke1955 · as Dr. Sam
- The Millionaire1955 · as Merle Roberts
- Climax!1954 · as Sally Jordan
- Climax!1954 · as Jan Michaels
- Climax!1954 · as Janet Reese
- Studio 571954 · as The Little Girl's Mother
- City Detective1953
- General Electric Theater1953 · as Terry
- General Electric Theater1953 · as Mrs. Eaton
- General Electric Theater1953
- General Electric Theater1953 · as Nora Douglas
- General Electric Theater1953 · as Debra Stone
- The Ford Television Theatre1952 · as Nancy Carr
- Four Star Playhouse1952 · as Julie Tolin
- Four Star Playhouse1952 · as Maggie
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars1951 · as Julie
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars1951 · as Sarah Larkin
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars1951
- Lux Video Theatre1950 · as Maureen O'Reilly
- Lux Video Theatre1950 · as Christine Carroll Kimberly
- Lux Video Theatre1950 · as Jenny
- Lux Video Theatre1950 · as Audrey O'Connor
- The Colgate Comedy Hour1950 · as Self