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