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