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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Boise City, Oklahoma, USA, 1929-08-23

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	When Willie Comes Marching Home	Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)	68
2	1950	The Screen Writer	Young Actress (uncredited)	0
3	1951	Two Tickets to Broadway	Showgirl (uncredited)	43
4	1952	For Men Only	Kathy	56
5	1952	The Rose Bowl Story	Denny Burke	35
6	1953	The Charge at Feather River	Jennie McKeever	56
7	1953	So Big	Girl (uncredited)	56
8	1954	Pride of the Blue Grass	Linda	0
9	1955	Tarzan's Hidden Jungle	Jill Hardy	49
10	1955	Wichita	Laurie McCoy	63
11	1955	Man on the Ledge	Virginia	0
12	1956	The House Without a Name		0
13	1956	The Searchers	Laurie Jorgensen	77
14	1956	23 Paces to Baker Street	Jean Lennox	68
15	1956	Autumn Leaves	Virginia Hanson	70
16	1956	The Wrong Man	Rose Balestrero	71
17	1957	Beau James	Betty Compton	57
18	1959	Web of Evidence	Lena Anderson	48
19	1959	The FBI Story	Lucy Ann Hardesty	61
20	1960	A Touch of Larceny	Virginia Killain	58
21	1960	Five Branded Women	Daniza	60
22	1960	Psycho	Lila Crane	84
23	1961	The Lawbreakers	Angela Walsh	55
24	1961	Back Street	Liz Saxon	58
25	1962	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	Hallie Stoddard	78
26	1964	A Tiger Walks	Dorothy Williams	57
27	1964	The Unknown	Kassia Paine	60
28	1964	Those Calloways	Lydia (Liddy) Calloway	62
29	1964	The Hanged Man	Lois Seeger	46
30	1966	Follow Me, Boys!	Vida Downey	66
31	1966	One of Our Spies Is Missing	Madame Raine De Sala	55
32	1967	The Spirit Is Willing	Kate Powell	54
33	1967	Gentle Giant	Ellen Wedloe	0
34	1968	Sergeant Ryker	Ann Ryker	65
35	1968	Kona Coast	Melissa Hyde	31
36	1968	Mission Batangas	Joan Barnes	0
37	1968	Hellfighters	Madelyn Buckman	63
38	1969	It Takes All Kinds	Laura Ring	0
39	1969	Journey to the Unknown	June Wiley	0
40	1970	The Wild Country	Kate Tanner	60
41	1971	In Search of America	Jenny Olson	30
42	1971	Cannon	Diana Langston	35
43	1971	A Howling in the Woods	Rose Staines	49
44	1972	Jigsaw	Lilah Beth Cummings	0
45	1972	A Great American Tragedy	Gloria Wilkes	67
46	1972	Molly and Lawless John	Molly Parker	30
47	1973	Baffled!	Andrea Glenn	50
48	1973	One Little Indian	Doris	63
49	1973	Runaway!	Ellen Staffo	53
50	1974	Live Again, Die Again	Marcia Carmichael	80
51	1974	The Underground Man	Eleanor Strom	50
52	1974	The Castaway Cowboy	Henrietta MacAvoy	66
53	1974	The Strange and Deadly Occurrence	Christine Rhodes	61
54	1976	Smash-Up on Interstate 5	Erica	54
55	1976	Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys	Mrs. Horton	60
56	1976	State Fair	Melissa Bryant	0
57	1977	Fire!	Martha Wagner	70
58	1977	Run for the Roses	Clarissa Stewart	0
59	1978	And I Alone Survived	Irene Elder	57
60	1979	The Horror Show	(archive footage)	38
61	1980	Roughnecks	Ida McBride	60
62	1981	Our Family Business	Patricia	0
63	1982	Mazes and Monsters	Cat	42
64	1983	Travis McGee	Julie Lawless	45
65	1983	Psycho II	Lila Loomis	65
66	1983	BrainWaves	Marian Koonan	41
67	1984	Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues	Kate Keller	65
68	1984	The Initiation	Frances Fairchild	55
69	1985	Into the Night	Joan Caper	65
70	1985	International Airport	Elaine Corley	50
71	1989	The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro	Sophie Kubacki	0
72	1993	24 Hour Psycho	Lila Crane (archive footage)	40
73	1995	Separate Lives	Dr. Ruth Goldin	45
74	2010	The Psycho Legacy	Self (archive footage)	69
75	2015	Hitchcock/Truffaut	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	73

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour	Self	68
2	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Maureen O'Reilly	63
3	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Christine Carroll Kimberly	63
4	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Jenny	63
5	1950	Lux Video Theatre	Audrey O'Connor	63
6	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Julie	73
7	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars	Sarah Larkin	73
8	1951	Schlitz Playhouse of Stars		73
9	1952	Four Star Playhouse	Julie Tolin	63
10	1952	Four Star Playhouse	Maggie	63
11	1952	The Ford Television Theatre	Nancy Carr	73
12	1953	General Electric Theater	Terry	63
13	1953	General Electric Theater	Mrs. Eaton	63
14	1953	General Electric Theater		63
15	1953	General Electric Theater	Nora Douglas	63
16	1953	General Electric Theater	Debra Stone	63
17	1953	City Detective		70
18	1954	Studio 57	The Little Girl's Mother	0
19	1954	Climax!	Sally Jordan	33
20	1954	Climax!	Jan Michaels	33
21	1954	Climax!	Janet Reese	33
22	1955	The Millionaire	Merle Roberts	50
23	1955	Gunsmoke	Dr. Sam	66
24	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Elsa Spann	77
25	1955	Screen Director's Playhouse	Ruth Dahlberg	65
26	1955	The 20th Century Fox Hour	Virginia	54
27	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Jenny Breckenridge	55
28	1957	Wagon Train	Sister Rita	63
29	1957	Wagon Train	Janice Stuart	63
30	1959	Rawhide		72
31	1959	Rawhide	Helen Walsh	72
32	1959	Bonanza	Sarah Lowell	75
33	1959	Bonanza	April Christopher	75
34	1959	Riverboat	Jeanette Mowbray	62
35	1959	The Twilight Zone	Millicent Barnes	85
36	1959	Startime	Jean Medwick	60
37	1959	The Detectives	Lucy	56
38	1960	My Three Sons	Ernestine Coulter	65
39	1960	Route 66	Ellen Barnes	63
40	1961	The Asphalt Jungle		50
41	1961	The Dick Powell Show	Stella Calman	55
42	1962	Sam Benedict		60
43	1962	The Virginian	Miss Wallace	65
44	1962	The Virginian	Maggie Menken	65
45	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Daphne	78
46	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Nicky Revere	78
47	1963	Arrest and Trial	Jean Forbes	77
48	1963	The Outer Limits	Kassia Paine	78
49	1963	The Fugitive	Monica Welles	72
50	1963	Burke's Law	Claudia Sutton	60
51	1963	Mr. Novak	Sister Gervaise	65
52	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre	Beth	57
53	1963	Kraft Suspense Theatre	Ann Ryker	53
54	1964	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	Madame Raine De Sala	72
55	1965	Run for Your Life	Rachel Pike	72
56	1965	I Spy	Rachel	63
57	1965	The F.B.I.	Kate Burke	55
58	1966	ABC Stage 67	Adele	62
59	1967	Ironside	Barbara Richards	68
60	1967	Ironside	Barbara Jones	68
61	1967	Ironside	Gloria Campbell	68
62	1967	Judd for the Defense		75
63	1967	Mannix	Jean McBride	67
64	1968	Hawaii Five-O	Flora Whiting	71
65	1968	The Name of the Game	Marisa Cummings	68
66	1968	The Name of the Game	Tracy Cannon	68
67	1968	Journey to the Unknown	June Wiley	63
68	1969	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Helen Wagner	65
69	1969	Marcus Welby, M.D.	Janet Devaney	65
70	1969	Medical Center		61
71	1969	Medical Center	Dr. Gloria Hall	61
72	1970	Dan August	Carla	68
73	1971	Alias Smith and Jones		69
74	1971	Cannon		65
75	1971	Columbo	Viveca Scott	81
76	1972	The Streets of San Francisco		69
77	1974	Little House on the Prairie	Ruthy Leland	79
78	1974	Movin' On		52
79	1975	Ellery Queen	Celeste Wakefield	74
80	1976	McNaughton's Daughter	Grace Coventry	10
81	1977	How the West Was Won	Beth	69
82	1977	The Love Boat	Bess Hensinger	63
83	1977	The Love Boat	Eve Springer	63
84	1978	Fantasy Island	Martha Tate	64
85	1979	Buck Rogers in the 25th Century	Tora	70
86	1980	Magnum, P.I.	Joan Gibson	73
87	1982	Hotel		68
88	1982	Hotel	Teresa Clayborne	68
89	1982	Hotel	Millie Broom	68
90	1982	Matt Houston		62
91	1984	Finder of Lost Loves	Joanna Shaw	57
92	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Elizabeth Gates	75
93	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Charmaine Calloway Thompson	75
94	1984	Murder, She Wrote	Nancy Landon	75
95	1984	Crazy like a Fox	Georgina Burton	71

Vera Miles

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