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.
143 acting credits
Acting · 143
Columbo
1971
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Mannix
1967
Bonanza
1959
The Love Boat
1977
The Fugitive
1963
Ironside
1967
Magnum, P.I.
1980
Little House on the Prairie
1974
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Wagon Train
1957
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
The Twilight Zone
1959
The Virginian
1962
Hotel
1982
Climax!
1954
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
My Three Sons
1960
The F.B.I.
1965
Four Star Playhouse
1952
Fantasy Island
1978
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Medical Center
1969
Burke's Law
1963
Rawhide
1959
Route 66
1960
Run for Your Life
1965
The Outer Limits
1963
Cannon
1971
The Name of the Game
1968
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969
Gunsmoke
1955
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
Psycho
1960
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Matt Houston
1982
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
The Detectives
1959
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
Studio 57
1954
Judd, for the Defense
1967
The Millionaire
1955
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
Crazy like a Fox
1984
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971
Arrest and Trial
1963
Startime
1959
Ellery Queen
1975
Mr. Novak
1963
Riverboat
1959
How the West Was Won
1977
I Spy
1965
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
Lux Video Theatre
1950
ABC Stage 67
1966
Sam Benedict
1962
Finder of Lost Loves
1984
The Dick Powell Show
1961
Dan August
1970
The Searchers
1956
Journey to the Unknown
1968
City Detective
1953
Movin' On
1974
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
The Asphalt Jungle
1961
General Electric Theater
1953
Psycho II
1983
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Into the Night
1985
The Wrong Man
1956
McNaughton's Daughter
1976
The Initiation
1984
The FBI Story
1959
Mazes and Monsters
1982
The Horror Show
1979
Hellfighters
1968
Wichita
1955
The Charge at Feather River
1953
The Castaway Cowboy
1974
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
1984
Beau James
1957
Travis McGee
1983
When Willie Comes Marching Home
1950
Those Calloways
1964
The Spirit Is Willing
1967
Follow Me, Boys!
1966
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976
The Hanged Man
1964
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
1976
Separate Lives
1995
Cannon
1971
So Big
1953
In Search of America
1971
The Wild Country
1970
A Great American Tragedy
1972
International Airport
1985
Autumn Leaves
1956
The Lawbreakers
1961
BrainWaves
1983
Sergeant Ryker
1968
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
1974
Baffled!
1973
Fire!
1977
Roughnecks
1980
State Fair
1976
23 Paces to Baker Street
1956
Molly and Lawless John
1972
One of Our Spies Is Missing
1966
One Little Indian
1973
The Unknown
1964
The Underground Man
1974
Five Branded Women
1960
Pride of the Blue Grass
1954
Back Street
1961
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
1989
Mission Batangas
1968
Gentle Giant
1967
A Tiger Walks
1964
Runaway!
1973
A Howling in the Woods
1971
Web of Evidence
1959
And I Alone Survived
1978
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955
For Men Only
1952
Journey to the Unknown
1969
Two Tickets to Broadway
1951
It Takes All Kinds
1969
Live Again, Die Again
1974
Kona Coast
1968
The Rose Bowl Story
1952
A Touch of Larceny
1960
Jigsaw
1972
The House Without a Name
1956
Man on the Ledge
1955
Our Family Business
1981
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982
Run for the Roses
1977
The Screen Writer
1950
Recoil
1963