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