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