Vera Miles
Acting
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.
TV Shows(69)
Crazy like a Fox
Georgina Burton
1984
Murder, She Wrote
Elizabeth Gates
1984
Finder of Lost Loves
Joanna Shaw
1984
Matt Houston
1982
Hotel
1982
Magnum, P.I.
Joan Gibson
1980
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Tora
1979
Fantasy Island
Martha Tate
1978
The Love Boat
Bess Hensinger
1977
How the West Was Won
Beth
1977
McNaughton's Daughter
Grace Coventry
1976
Ellery Queen
Celeste Wakefield
1975
Movin' On
1974
Little House on the Prairie
Ruthy Leland
1974
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Nancy Hodges
1971
Columbo
Viveca Scott
1971
Cannon
1971
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Dan August
Carla
1970
Medical Center
1969
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Helen Wagner
1969
Journey to the Unknown
June Wiley
1968
Hawaii Five-O
Flora Whiting
1968
The Name of the Game
Marisa Cummings
1968
Mannix
Jean McBride
1967
Judd for the Defense
1967
Ironside
Barbara Richards
1967
ABC Stage 67
Adele
1966
The F.B.I.
Kate Burke
1965
I Spy
Rachel
1965
Run for Your Life
Rachel Pike
1965
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Madame Raine De Sala
1964
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Ann Ryker
1963
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Beth
1963
Mr. Novak
Sister Gervaise
1963
Burke's Law
Claudia Sutton
1963
The Fugitive
Monica Welles
1963
The Outer Limits
Kassia Paine
1963
Arrest and Trial
Jean Forbes
1963
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Daphne
1962
The Virginian
Miss Wallace
1962
Sam Benedict
1962
The Dick Powell Show
Stella Calman
1961
The Asphalt Jungle
1961
Route 66
Ellen Barnes
1960
My Three Sons
Ernestine Coulter
1960
The Detectives
Lucy
1959
Startime
Jean Medwick
1959
The Twilight Zone
Millicent Barnes
1959
Riverboat
Jeanette Mowbray
1959
Bonanza
Sarah Lowell
1959
Rawhide
1959
Wagon Train
Sister Rita
1957
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Jenny Breckenridge
1956
Screen Director's Playhouse
Ruth Dahlberg
1955
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Virginia
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Elsa Spann
1955
Gunsmoke
Dr. Sam
1955
The Millionaire
Merle Roberts
1955
Climax!
Sally Jordan
1954
Studio 57
The Little Girl's Mother
1954
City Detective
1953
General Electric Theater
Terry
1953
The Ford Television Theatre
Nancy Carr
1952
Four Star Playhouse
Julie Tolin
1952
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Julie
1951
Lux Video Theatre
Maureen O'Reilly
1950
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
1950
Movies(75)
Separate Lives
Dr. Ruth Goldin
1995
24 Hour Psycho
Lila Crane (archive footage)
1993
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
Sophie Kubacki
1989
International Airport
Elaine Corley
1985
Into the Night
Joan Caper
1985
The Initiation
Frances Fairchild
1984
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
Kate Keller
1984
BrainWaves
Marian Koonan
1983
Psycho II
Lila Loomis
1983
Travis McGee
Julie Lawless
1983
Mazes and Monsters
Cat
1982
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982
Our Family Business
Patricia
1981
Roughnecks
Ida McBride
1980
The Horror Show
(archive footage)
1979
And I Alone Survived
Irene Elder
1978
Run for the Roses
Clarissa Stewart
1977
Fire!
Martha Wagner
1977
State Fair
Melissa Bryant
1976
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Mrs. Horton
1976
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
Erica
1976
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
Christine Rhodes
1974
The Castaway Cowboy
Henrietta MacAvoy
1974
The Underground Man
Eleanor Strom
1974
Live Again, Die Again
Marcia Carmichael
1974
Runaway!
Ellen Staffo
1973
One Little Indian
Doris
1973
Baffled!
Andrea Glenn
1973
Molly and Lawless John
Molly Parker
1972
A Great American Tragedy
Gloria Wilkes
1972
Jigsaw
Lilah Beth Cummings
1972
A Howling in the Woods
Rose Staines
1971
Cannon
Diana Langston
1971
In Search of America
Jenny Olson
1971
The Wild Country
Kate Tanner
1970
Journey to the Unknown
June Wiley
1969
It Takes All Kinds
Laura Ring
1969
Hellfighters
Madelyn Buckman
1968
Mission Batangas
Joan Barnes
1968
Kona Coast
Melissa Hyde
1968
Sergeant Ryker
Ann Ryker
1968
Gentle Giant
Ellen Wedloe
1967
The Spirit Is Willing
Kate Powell
1967
Follow Me, Boys!
Vida Downey
1966
One of Our Spies Is Missing
Madame Raine De Sala
1966
The Hanged Man
Lois Seeger
1964
Those Calloways
Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
1964
The Unknown
Kassia Paine
1964
A Tiger Walks
Dorothy Williams
1964
Recoil
Lucy
1963
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Hallie Stoddard
1962
Back Street
Liz Saxon
1961
The Lawbreakers
Angela Walsh
1961
Psycho
Lila Crane
1960
Five Branded Women
Daniza
1960
A Touch of Larceny
Virginia Killain
1960
The FBI Story
Lucy Ann Hardesty
1959
Web of Evidence
Lena Anderson
1959
Beau James
Betty Compton
1957
The Wrong Man
Rose Balestrero
1956
Autumn Leaves
Virginia Hanson
1956
23 Paces to Baker Street
Jean Lennox
1956
The Searchers
Laurie Jorgensen
1956
The House Without a Name
1956
Man on the Ledge
Virginia
1955
Wichita
Laurie McCoy
1955
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Jill Hardy
1955
Pride of the Blue Grass
Linda
1954
So Big
Girl (uncredited)
1953
The Charge at Feather River
Jennie McKeever
1953
The Rose Bowl Story
Denny Burke
1952
For Men Only
Kathy
1952
Two Tickets to Broadway
Showgirl (uncredited)
1951
The Screen Writer
Young Actress (uncredited)
1950
When Willie Comes Marching Home
Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)
1950