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