Vera Miles
Acting
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.
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Filmography of
Vera Miles
Dr. Ruth Goldin
... 1995
Lila Crane (archive footage)
... 1993
Sophie Kubacki
... 1989
Elaine Corley
... 1985
Joan Caper
... 1985
Frances Fairchild
... 1984
Kate Keller
... 1984
Marian Koonan
... 1983
Lila Loomis
... 1983
Julie Lawless
... 1983
... 1982
Patricia
... 1981
Ida McBride
... 1980
(archive footage)
... 1979
Irene Elder
... 1978
Clarissa Stewart
... 1977
Martha Wagner
... 1977
Melissa Bryant
... 1976
Mrs. Horton
... 1976
Erica
... 1976
Christine Rhodes
... 1974
Henrietta MacAvoy
... 1974
Eleanor Strom
... 1974
Marcia Carmichael
... 1974
Ellen Staffo
... 1973
Doris
... 1973
Andrea Glenn
... 1973
Molly Parker
... 1972
Gloria Wilkes
... 1972
Lilah Beth Cummings
... 1972
Rose Staines
... 1971
Diana Langston
... 1971
Jenny Olson
... 1971
Kate Tanner
... 1970
June Wiley
... 1969
Laura Ring
... 1969
Madelyn Buckman
... 1968
Joan Barnes
... 1968
Melissa Hyde
... 1968
Ann Ryker
... 1968
Ellen Wedloe
... 1967
Kate Powell
... 1967
Vida Downey
... 1966
Madame Raine De Sala
... 1966
Lois Seeger
... 1964
Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
... 1964
Kassia Paine
... 1964
Dorothy Williams
... 1964
Hallie Stoddard
... 1962
Liz Saxon
... 1961
Angela Walsh
... 1961
Lila Crane
... 1960
Daniza
... 1960
Virginia Killain
... 1960
Lucy Ann Hardesty
... 1959
Lena Anderson
... 1959
Betty Compton
... 1957
Rose Balestrero
... 1956
Virginia Hanson
... 1956
Jean Lennox
... 1956
Laurie Jorgensen
... 1956
... 1956
Virginia
... 1955
Laurie McCoy
... 1955
Jill Hardy
... 1955
Linda
... 1954
Girl (uncredited)
... 1953
Jennie McKeever
... 1953
Denny Burke
... 1952
Kathy
... 1952
Showgirl (uncredited)
... 1951
Young Actress (uncredited)
... 1950
Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)
... 1950