Known For
Acting
Born
Aug 23, 1930
Place of Birth
Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
Credits
144 titles
Vera Miles
Biography
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
Filmography
Separate Lives
Dr. Ruth Goldin
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
Sophie Kubacki
International Airport
Elaine Corley
Into the Night
Joan Caper
Crazy like a Fox
Georgina Burton
The Initiation
Frances Fairchild
Murder, She Wrote
Elizabeth Gates
Finder of Lost Loves
Joanna Shaw
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
Kate Keller
BrainWaves
Marian Koonan
Psycho II
Lila Loomis
Travis McGee
Julie Lawless
Mazes and Monsters
Cat
Matt Houston
Hotel
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
Our Family Business
Patricia
Magnum, P.I.
Joan Gibson
Roughnecks
Ida McBride
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Tora
The Horror Show
(archive footage)
And I Alone Survived
Irene Elder
Fantasy Island
Martha Tate
The Love Boat
Bess Hensinger
Run for the Roses
Clarissa Stewart
Fire!
Martha Wagner
How the West Was Won
Beth
State Fair
Melissa Bryant
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Mrs. Horton
McNaughton's Daughter
Grace Coventry
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
Erica
Ellery Queen
Celeste Wakefield
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
Christine Rhodes
Movin' On
Little House on the Prairie
Ruthy Leland
The Castaway Cowboy
Henrietta MacAvoy
The Underground Man
Eleanor Strom
Live Again, Die Again
Marcia Carmichael
Runaway!
Ellen Staffo
One Little Indian
Doris
Baffled!
Andrea Glenn
Molly and Lawless John
Molly Parker
A Great American Tragedy
Gloria Wilkes
The Streets of San Francisco
Jigsaw
Lilah Beth Cummings
A Howling in the Woods
Rose Staines
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Nancy Hodges
Columbo
Viveca Scott
Cannon
Cannon
Diana Langston