Vera Miles
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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
Psycho (1960)
as Lila Crane
The Searchers (1956)
as Laurie Jorgensen
Into the Night (1985)
as Joan Caper
Psycho II (1983)
as Lila Loomis
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
as Hallie Stoddard
The Wrong Man (1956)
as Rose Balestrero
Jigsaw (1972)
as Lilah Beth Cummings
Hellfighters (1968)
as Madelyn Buckman
The Castaway Cowboy (1974)
as Henrietta MacAvoy
Mazes and Monsters (1982)
as Cat
Back Street (1961)
as Liz Saxon
Wichita (1955)
as Laurie McCoy
The FBI Story (1959)
as Lucy Ann Hardesty
The Initiation (1984)
as Frances Fairchild
Web of Evidence (1959)
as Lena Anderson
One Little Indian (1973)
as Doris
23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
as Jean Lennox
The Unknown (1964)
as Kassia Paine
Those Calloways (1964)
as Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
The Horror Show (1979)
as (archive footage)
Sergeant Ryker (1968)
as Ann Ryker
Separate Lives (1995)
as Dr. Ruth Goldin
Five Branded Women (1960)
as Daniza
Autumn Leaves (1956)
as Virginia Hanson
The Wild Country (1970)
as Kate Tanner
Travis McGee (1983)
as Julie Lawless
Recoil (1963)
as Lucy
A Tiger Walks (1964)
as Dorothy Williams
BrainWaves (1983)
as Marian Koonan
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955)
as Jill Hardy
Follow Me, Boys! (1966)
as Vida Downey
Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)
as Showgirl (uncredited)
The Spirit Is Willing (1967)
as Kate Powell
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues (1984)
as Kate Keller
A Howling in the Woods (1971)
as Rose Staines
When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)
as Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)
A Touch of Larceny (1960)
as Virginia Killain
For Men Only (1952)
as Kathy
The Charge at Feather River (1953)
as Jennie McKeever
Our Family Business (1981)
as Patricia
Gentle Giant (1967)
as Ellen Wedloe
International Airport (1985)
as Elaine Corley
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady (1982)
Actor
Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976)
as Erica
Molly and Lawless John (1972)
as Molly Parker
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro (1989)
as Sophie Kubacki
The Rose Bowl Story (1952)
as Denny Burke
A Great American Tragedy (1972)
as Gloria Wilkes
So Big (1953)
as Girl (uncredited)
One of Our Spies Is Missing (1966)
as Madame Raine De Sala
Baffled! (1973)
as Andrea Glenn
And I Alone Survived (1978)
as Irene Elder
Man on the Ledge (1955)
as Virginia
The Hanged Man (1964)
as Lois Seeger
Live Again, Die Again (1974)
as Marcia Carmichael
Fire! (1977)
as Martha Wagner
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence (1974)
as Christine Rhodes
The Lawbreakers (1961)
as Angela Walsh
The Underground Man (1974)
as Eleanor Strom
It Takes All Kinds (1969)
as Laura Ring
Cannon (1971)
as Diana Langston
State Fair (1976)
as Melissa Bryant
Beau James (1957)
as Betty Compton
Kona Coast (1968)
as Melissa Hyde
Run for the Roses (1977)
as Clarissa Stewart
In Search of America (1971)
as Jenny Olson
Journey to the Unknown (1969)
as June Wiley
Runaway! (1973)
as Ellen Staffo
Roughnecks (1980)
as Ida McBride
Pride of the Blue Grass (1954)
as Linda
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys (1976)
as Mrs. Horton
Mission Batangas (1968)
as Joan Barnes
The House Without a Name (1956)
as Vera
The Screen Writer (1950)
as Young Actress (uncredited)
Panic Button (1957)
as Carolyn Cook