Vera Miles
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 23, 1930 (age 96)
- Place of birth
- Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
- Credits
- 146
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
Psycho
1960Movie
Lila Crane
The Searchers
1956Movie
Laurie Jorgensen
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962Movie
Hallie Stoddard
The Twilight Zone
1959TV
Millicent Barnes
Little House on the Prairie
1974TV
Ruthy Leland
Columbo
1971TV
Viveca Scott
Filmography
Separate Lives
1995Movie
Dr. Ruth Goldin
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
1989Movie
Sophie Kubacki
International Airport
1985Movie
Elaine Corley
Into the Night
1985Movie
Joan Caper
Crazy like a Fox
1984TV
Georgina Burton
The Initiation
1984Movie
Frances Fairchild
Murder, She Wrote
1984TV
Elizabeth Gates, Charmaine Calloway Thompson, Nancy Landon
Finder of Lost Loves
1984TV
Joanna Shaw
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
1984Movie
Kate Keller
BrainWaves
1983Movie
Marian Koonan
Psycho II
1983Movie
Lila Loomis
Travis McGee
1983Movie
Julie Lawless
Mazes and Monsters
1982Movie
Cat
Matt Houston
1982TV
Hotel
1982TV
Teresa Clayborne, Millie Broom
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982Movie
Self
Our Family Business
1981Movie
Patricia
Magnum, P.I.
1980TV
Joan Gibson
Roughnecks
1980Movie
Ida McBride
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979TV
Tora
The Horror Show
1979Movie
(archive footage)
And I Alone Survived
1978Movie
Irene Elder
Fantasy Island
1978TV
Martha Tate
The Love Boat
1977TV
Bess Hensinger, Eve Springer
Run for the Roses
1977Movie
Clarissa Stewart
Fire!
1977Movie
Martha Wagner
How the West Was Won
1977TV
Beth
State Fair
1976Movie
Melissa Bryant
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976Movie
Mrs. Horton
McNaughton's Daughter
1976TV
Grace Coventry
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
1976Movie
Erica
Ellery Queen
1975TV
Celeste Wakefield
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
1974Movie
Christine Rhodes
Movin' On
1974TV
Little House on the Prairie
1974TV
Ruthy Leland
The Castaway Cowboy
1974Movie
Henrietta MacAvoy
The Underground Man
1974Movie
Eleanor Strom
Live Again, Die Again
1974Movie
Marcia Carmichael
Runaway!
1973Movie
Ellen Staffo
One Little Indian
1973Movie
Doris
Baffled!
1973Movie
Andrea Glenn
Molly and Lawless John
1972Movie
Molly Parker
A Great American Tragedy
1972Movie
Gloria Wilkes
The Streets of San Francisco
1972TV
Jigsaw
1972Movie
Lilah Beth Cummings
A Howling in the Woods
1971Movie
Rose Staines
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971TV
Nancy Hodges
Columbo
1971TV
Viveca Scott
Cannon
1971TV
Vivian Cabe
Cannon
1971Movie
Diana Langston
In Search of America
1971Movie
Jenny Olson
Alias Smith and Jones
1971TV
The Wild Country
1970Movie
Kate Tanner
Dan August
1970TV
Carla
Medical Center
1969TV
Dr. Gloria Hall
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969TV
Helen Wagner, Janet Devaney
Journey to the Unknown
1969Movie
June Wiley
It Takes All Kinds
1969Movie
Laura Ring
Hawaii Five-O
1969TV
Flora Whiting
Hellfighters
1968Movie
Madelyn Buckman
Mission Batangas
1968Movie
Joan Barnes
Journey to the Unknown
1968TV
June Wiley
The Name of the Game
1968TV
Marisa Cummings, Tracy Cannon
Kona Coast
1968Movie
Melissa Hyde
Sergeant Ryker
1968Movie
Ann Ryker
Gentle Giant
1967Movie
Ellen Wedloe
Mannix
1967TV
Jean McBride
Judd, for the Defense
1967TV
The Spirit Is Willing
1967Movie
Kate Powell
Ironside
1967TV
Barbara Richards, Barbara Jones, Gloria Campbell
Follow Me, Boys!
1966Movie
Vida Downey
One of Our Spies Is Missing
1966Movie
Madame Raine De Sala
Hollywood Squares
1966TV
Self, Self - Center Square
ABC Stage 67
1966TV
Adele
The F.B.I.
1965TV
Kate Burke
I Spy
1965TV
Rachel
Run for Your Life
1965TV
Rachel Pike
The Hanged Man
1964Movie
Lois Seeger
Those Calloways
1964Movie
Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964TV
Madame Raine De Sala
The Unknown
1964Movie
Kassia Paine
A Tiger Walks
1964Movie
Dorothy Williams
Recoil
1963Movie
Lucy
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963TV
Ann Ryker
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963TV
Beth
Mr. Novak
1963TV
Sister Gervaise
Burke's Law
1963TV
Claudia Sutton
The Fugitive
1963TV
Monica Welles
The Outer Limits
1963TV
Kassia Paine
Arrest and Trial
1963TV
Jean Forbes
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962TV
Daphne, Nicky Revere
The Virginian
1962TV
Miss Wallace, Maggie Menken
Sam Benedict
1962TV
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962Movie
Hallie Stoddard
Back Street
1961Movie
Liz Saxon
The Dick Powell Show
1961TV
Stella Calman
The Lawbreakers
1961Movie
Angela Walsh
The Asphalt Jungle
1961TV
Route 66
1960TV
Ellen Barnes
My Three Sons
1960TV
Ernestine Coulter
Psycho
1960Movie
Lila Crane
Five Branded Women
1960Movie
Daniza
A Touch of Larceny
1960Movie
Virginia Killain
The Detectives
1959TV
Lucy
Startime
1959TV
Jean Medwick
The Twilight Zone
1959TV
Millicent Barnes
The FBI Story
1959Movie
Lucy Ann Hardesty
Riverboat
1959TV
Jeanette Mowbray
Bonanza
1959TV
Sarah Lowell, April Christopher
Web of Evidence
1959Movie
Lena Anderson
Rawhide
1959TV
Helen Walsh
Panic Button
1957Movie
Carolyn Cook
Wagon Train
1957TV
Sister Rita, Janice Stuart
Beau James
1957Movie
Betty Compton
The Wrong Man
1956Movie
Rose Balestrero
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956TV
Jenny Breckenridge
Autumn Leaves
1956Movie
Virginia Hanson
23 Paces to Baker Street
1956Movie
Jean Lennox
The Searchers
1956Movie
Laurie Jorgensen
The House Without a Name
1956Movie
Vera
Man on the Ledge
1955Movie
Virginia
Rookie of the Year
1955Movie
Ruth Dahlberg
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955TV
Ruth Dahlberg
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955TV
Virginia
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955TV
Elsa Spann
Gunsmoke
1955TV
Dr. Sam
Wichita
1955Movie
Laurie McCoy
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955Movie
Jill Hardy
The Millionaire
1955TV
Merle Roberts
Climax!
1954TV
Sally Jordan, Jan Michaels, Janet Reese
Studio 57
1954TV
The Little Girl's Mother
Pride of the Blue Grass
1954Movie
Linda
So Big
1953Movie
Girl (uncredited)
City Detective
1953TV
The Charge at Feather River
1953Movie
Jennie McKeever
General Electric Theater
1953TV
Terry, Mrs. Eaton, Nora Douglas, Debra Stone
The Ford Television Theatre
1952TV
Nancy Carr
Four Star Playhouse
1952TV
Julie Tolin, Maggie
The Rose Bowl Story
1952Movie
Denny Burke
For Men Only
1952Movie
Kathy
Two Tickets to Broadway
1951Movie
Showgirl (uncredited)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951TV
Julie, Sarah Larkin
Lux Video Theatre
1950TV
Maureen O'Reilly, Christine Carroll Kimberly, Jenny, Audrey O'Connor
The Screen Writer
1950Movie
Young Actress (uncredited)
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950TV
Self
When Willie Comes Marching Home
1950Movie
Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)