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