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
Credits
- 2015 · Hitchcock/Truffaut as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2010 · The Psycho Legacy as Self (archive footage)
- 1995 · Separate Lives as Dr. Ruth Goldin
- 1993 · 24 Hour Psycho as Lila Crane (archive footage)
- 1989 · The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro as Sophie Kubacki
- 1985 · International Airport as Elaine Corley
- 1985 · Into the Night as Joan Caper
- 1984 · Crazy like a Fox as Georgina Burton
- 1984 · The Initiation as Frances Fairchild
- 1984 · Murder, She Wrote as Elizabeth Gates
- 1984 · Murder, She Wrote as Charmaine Calloway Thompson
- 1984 · Murder, She Wrote as Nancy Landon
- 1984 · Finder of Lost Loves as Joanna Shaw
- 1984 · Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues as Kate Keller
- 1983 · BrainWaves as Marian Koonan
- 1983 · Psycho II as Lila Loomis
- 1983 · Travis McGee as Julie Lawless
- 1982 · Mazes and Monsters as Cat
- 1982 · Matt Houston as
- 1982 · Hotel as
- 1982 · Hotel as Teresa Clayborne
- 1982 · Hotel as Millie Broom
- 1981 · Our Family Business as Patricia
- 1980 · Magnum, P.I. as
- 1980 · Roughnecks as Ida McBride
- 1979 · Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as Tora
- 1979 · The Horror Show as (archive footage)
- 1978 · And I Alone Survived as Irene Elder
- 1977 · The Love Boat as Bess Hensinger
- 1977 · The Love Boat as Eve Springer
- 1977 · Run for the Roses as Clarissa Stewart
- 1977 · Fire! as Martha Wagner
- 1977 · How the West Was Won as Beth
- 1976 · State Fair as Melissa Bryant
- 1976 · Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys as Mrs. Horton
- 1976 · McNaughton's Daughter as Grace Coventry
- 1976 · Smash-Up on Interstate 5 as Erica
- 1975 · Ellery Queen as Celeste Wakefield
- 1974 · The Strange and Deadly Occurrence as Christine Rhodes
- 1974 · Little House on the Prairie as Ruthy Leland
- 1974 · The Castaway Cowboy as Henrietta MacAvoy
- 1974 · Movin' On as
- 1974 · The Underground Man as Eleanor Strom
- 1974 · Live Again, Die Again as Marcia Carmichael
- 1973 · Runaway! as Ellen Staffo
- 1973 · One Little Indian as Doris
- 1973 · Baffled! as Andrea Glenn
- 1972 · Molly and Lawless John as Molly Parker
- 1972 · A Great American Tragedy as Gloria Wilkes
- 1972 · The Streets of San Francisco as
- 1972 · Jigsaw as Lilah Beth Cummings
- 1971 · A Howling in the Woods as Rose Staines
- 1971 · Columbo as Viveca Scott
- 1971 · Cannon as
- 1971 · Cannon as Diana Langston
- 1971 · In Search of America as Jenny Olson
- 1971 · Alias Smith and Jones as
- 1970 · The Wild Country as Kate Tanner
- 1970 · Dan August as Carla
- 1969 · Medical Center as
- 1969 · Medical Center as Dr. Gloria Hall
- 1969 · Marcus Welby, M.D. as Helen Wagner
- 1969 · Marcus Welby, M.D. as Janet Devaney
- 1969 · Journey to the Unknown as June Wiley
- 1969 · It Takes All Kinds as Laura Ring
- 1968 · Hellfighters as Madelyn Buckman
- 1968 · Mission Batangas as Joan Barnes
- 1968 · Journey to the Unknown as June Wiley
- 1968 · Hawaii Five-O as Flora Whiting
- 1968 · The Name of the Game as Marisa Cummings
- 1968 · The Name of the Game as Tracy Cannon
- 1968 · Kona Coast as Melissa Hyde
- 1968 · Sergeant Ryker as Ann Ryker
- 1967 · Gentle Giant as Ellen Wedloe
- 1967 · Mannix as Jean McBride
- 1967 · Judd for the Defense as
- 1967 · The Spirit Is Willing as Kate Powell
- 1967 · Ironside as
- 1967 · Ironside as Barbara Richards
- 1967 · Ironside as Barbara Jones
- 1966 · Follow Me, Boys! as Vida Downey
- 1966 · One of Our Spies Is Missing as Madame Raine De Sala
- 1966 · ABC Stage 67 as Adele
- 1965 · The F.B.I. as Kate Burke
- 1965 · I Spy as Rachel
- 1965 · Run for Your Life as Rachel Pike
- 1965 · Those Calloways as Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
- 1964 · The Hanged Man as Lois Seeger
- 1964 · The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Madame Raine De Sala
- 1964 · The Unknown as Kassia Paine
- 1964 · A Tiger Walks as Dorothy Williams
- 1963 · Kraft Suspense Theatre as Ann Ryker
- 1963 · Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Beth
- 1963 · Mr. Novak as Sister Gervaise
- 1963 · Burke's Law as Claudia Sutton
- 1963 · The Fugitive as Monica Welles
- 1963 · The Outer Limits as Kassia Paine
- 1963 · Arrest and Trial as Jean Forbes
- 1962 · The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Daphne
- 1962 · The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Nicky Revere
- 1962 · The Virginian as Miss Wallace
- 1962 · The Virginian as Maggie Menken
- 1962 · Sam Benedict as
- 1962 · The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as Hallie Stoddard
- 1961 · Back Street as Liz Saxon
- 1961 · The Dick Powell Show as Stella Calman
- 1961 · The Lawbreakers as Angela Walsh
- 1961 · The Asphalt Jungle as
- 1960 · Route 66 as Ellen Barnes
- 1960 · My Three Sons as Ernestine Coulter
- 1960 · Psycho as Lila Crane
- 1960 · Five Branded Women as Daniza
- 1960 · A Touch of Larceny as Virginia Killain
- 1959 · The Detectives as Lucy
- 1959 · Startime as Jean Medwick
- 1959 · The Twilight Zone as Millicent Barnes
- 1959 · The FBI Story as Lucy Ann Hardesty
- 1959 · Riverboat as Jeanette Mowbray
- 1959 · Bonanza as Sarah Lowell
- 1959 · Bonanza as April Christopher
- 1959 · Web of Evidence as Lena Anderson
- 1959 · Rawhide as
- 1959 · Rawhide as Helen Walsh
- 1957 · Wagon Train as Sister Rita
- 1957 · Wagon Train as Janice Stuart
- 1957 · Beau James as Betty Compton
- 1956 · The Wrong Man as Rose Balestrero
- 1956 · Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Jenny Breckenridge
- 1956 · Autumn Leaves as Virginia Hanson
- 1956 · 23 Paces to Baker Street as Jean Lennox
- 1956 · The Searchers as Laurie Jorgensen
- 1956 · The House Without a Name as
- 1955 · Man on the Ledge as Virginia
- 1955 · Rookie of the Year as Ruth Dahlberg
- 1955 · The 20th Century Fox Hour as
- 1955 · Screen Director's Playhouse as Ruth Dahlberg
- 1955 · Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Elsa Spann
- 1955 · Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Jean Medwick
- 1955 · Gunsmoke as Dr. Sam
- 1955 · Wichita as Laurie McCoy
- 1955 · Tarzan's Hidden Jungle as Jill Hardy
- 1955 · The Millionaire as Merle Roberts
- 1954 · Climax! as Sally Jordan
- 1954 · Climax! as Jan Michaels
- 1954 · Climax! as Janet Reese
- 1954 · Studio 57 as The Little Girl's Mother
- 1954 · Pride of the Blue Grass as Linda
- 1953 · So Big as Girl (uncredited)
- 1953 · City Detective as
- 1953 · The Charge at Feather River as Jennie McKeever
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as Terry
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as Mrs. Eaton
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as Nora Douglas
- 1953 · General Electric Theater as Debra Stone
- 1952 · Four Star Playhouse as Julie Tolin
- 1952 · Four Star Playhouse as Maggie
- 1952 · The Rose Bowl Story as Denny Burke
- 1952 · For Men Only as Kathy
- 1951 · Two Tickets to Broadway as Showgirl (uncredited)
- 1951 · Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Julie
- 1951 · Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Sarah Larkin
- 1951 · Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as
- 1950 · Lux Video Theatre as Maureen O'Reilly
- 1950 · Lux Video Theatre as Christine Carroll Kimberly
- 1950 · Lux Video Theatre as Jenny
- 1950 · Lux Video Theatre as Audrey O'Connor
- 1950 · The Screen Writer as Young Actress (uncredited)
- 1950 · The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- 1950 · When Willie Comes Marching Home as Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)