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