Vera Miles
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 23, 1930 (age 96)
- Birthplace
- Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
Biography
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
Dinosaur Drive-In
Movie · as Self - (archive footage)
Separate Lives
Movie · as Dr. Ruth Goldin
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
Movie · as Sophie Kubacki
Into the Night
Movie · as Joan Caper
International Airport
Movie · as Elaine Corley
The Initiation
Movie · as Frances Fairchild
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
Movie · as Kate Keller
Murder, She Wrote
TV · as Elizabeth Gates, Charmaine Calloway Thompson, Nancy Landon · 1 ep
Crazy like a Fox
TV · as Georgina Burton · 1 ep
Finder of Lost Loves
TV · as Joanna Shaw · 1 ep
Psycho II
Movie · as Lila Loomis
BrainWaves
Movie · as Marian Koonan
Travis McGee
Movie · as Julie Lawless
Mazes and Monsters
Movie · as Cat
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
Movie · as Self
Hotel
TV · as Teresa Clayborne, Millie Broom · 2 eps
Matt Houston
TV · 1 ep
Our Family Business
Movie · as Patricia
Roughnecks
Movie · as Ida McBride
Magnum, P.I.
TV · as Joan Gibson · 1 ep
The Horror Show
Movie · as (archive footage)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
TV · as Tora · 2 eps
And I Alone Survived
Movie · as Irene Elder
Fantasy Island
TV · as Martha Tate · 1 ep
Fire!
Movie · as Martha Wagner
Run for the Roses
Movie · as Clarissa Stewart
The Love Boat
TV · as Bess Hensinger, Eve Springer · 1 ep
How the West Was Won
TV · as Beth · 1 ep
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
Movie · as Erica
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Movie · as Mrs. Horton
State Fair
Movie · as Melissa Bryant
McNaughton's Daughter
TV · as Grace Coventry · 3 eps
Ellery Queen
TV · as Celeste Wakefield · 1 ep
The Castaway Cowboy
Movie · as Henrietta MacAvoy
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
Movie · as Christine Rhodes
Live Again, Die Again
Movie · as Marcia Carmichael
The Underground Man
Movie · as Eleanor Strom
Movin' On
TV · 1 ep
Little House on the Prairie
TV · as Ruthy Leland · 1 ep
One Little Indian
Movie · as Doris
Baffled!
Movie · as Andrea Glenn
Runaway!
Movie · as Ellen Staffo
A Great American Tragedy
Movie · as Gloria Wilkes
Jigsaw
Movie · as Lilah Beth Cummings
Molly and Lawless John
Movie · as Molly Parker
The Streets of San Francisco
TV · 1 ep
In Search of America
Movie · as Jenny Olson
Cannon
Movie · as Diana Langston
A Howling in the Woods
Movie · as Rose Staines
Columbo
TV · as Viveca Scott · 1 ep
Alias Smith and Jones
TV · 1 ep
Cannon
TV · as Vivian Cabe · 1 ep
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
TV · as Nancy Hodges · 1 ep
The Wild Country
Movie · as Kate Tanner
Dan August
TV · as Carla · 1 ep
Journey to the Unknown
Movie · as June Wiley
It Takes All Kinds
Movie · as Laura Ring
Hawaii Five-O
TV · as Flora Whiting · 1 ep
Marcus Welby, M.D.
TV · as Helen Wagner, Janet Devaney · 1 ep
Medical Center
TV · as Dr. Gloria Hall · 1 ep
Hellfighters
Movie · as Madelyn Buckman
Kona Coast
Movie · as Melissa Hyde
Sergeant Ryker
Movie · as Ann Ryker
Mission Batangas
Movie · as Joan Barnes
The Name of the Game
TV · as Marisa Cummings, Tracy Cannon · 1 ep
Journey to the Unknown
TV · as June Wiley · 1 ep
The Spirit Is Willing
Movie · as Kate Powell
Gentle Giant
Movie · as Ellen Wedloe
Mannix
TV · as Jean McBride · 1 ep
Judd, for the Defense
TV · 1 ep
Ironside
TV · as Barbara Richards, Barbara Jones, Gloria Campbell · 1 ep
Follow Me, Boys!
Movie · as Vida Downey
One of Our Spies Is Missing
Movie · as Madame Raine De Sala
ABC Stage 67
TV · as Adele · 1 ep
Hollywood Squares
TV · as Self, Self - Center Square · 5 eps
The F.B.I.
TV · as Kate Burke · 1 ep
I Spy
TV · as Rachel
Run for Your Life
TV · as Rachel Pike · 1 ep
Those Calloways
Movie · as Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
A Tiger Walks
Movie · as Dorothy Williams
The Hanged Man
Movie · as Lois Seeger
The Unknown
Movie · as Kassia Paine
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
TV · as Madame Raine De Sala · 2 eps
Recoil
Movie · as Lucy
Burke's Law
TV · as Claudia Sutton · 1 ep
Kraft Suspense Theatre
TV · as Ann Ryker · 2 eps
The Fugitive
TV · as Monica Welles · 1 ep
Mr. Novak
TV · as Sister Gervaise · 1 ep
The Outer Limits
TV · as Kassia Paine · 1 ep
Arrest and Trial
TV · as Jean Forbes · 1 ep
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
TV · as Beth · 1 ep
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Movie · as Hallie Stoddard
Sam Benedict
TV · 1 ep
The Virginian
TV · as Miss Wallace, Maggie Menken · 1 ep
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
TV · as Daphne, Nicky Revere · 1 ep
Back Street
Movie · as Liz Saxon
The Lawbreakers
Movie · as Angela Walsh
The Asphalt Jungle
TV · 1 ep
The Dick Powell Show
TV · as Stella Calman · 1 ep
Psycho
Movie · as Lila Crane
A Touch of Larceny
Movie · as Virginia Killain
Five Branded Women
Movie · as Daniza
My Three Sons
TV · as Ernestine Coulter · 3 eps
Route 66
TV · as Ellen Barnes · 1 ep
The FBI Story
Movie · as Lucy Ann Hardesty
Web of Evidence
Movie · as Lena Anderson
The Twilight Zone
TV · as Millicent Barnes · 1 ep
Rawhide
TV · as Helen Walsh
Riverboat
TV · as Jeanette Mowbray · 1 ep
Bonanza
TV · as April Christopher, Sarah Lowell · 1 ep
The Detectives
TV · as Lucy · 1 ep
Startime
TV · as Jean Medwick · 1 ep
Beau James
Movie · as Betty Compton
Panic Button
Movie · as Carolyn Cook
Wagon Train
TV · as Sister Rita, Janice Stuart · 1 ep
The Searchers
Movie · as Laurie Jorgensen
The Wrong Man
Movie · as Rose Balestrero
Autumn Leaves
Movie · as Virginia Hanson
23 Paces to Baker Street
Movie · as Jean Lennox
The House Without a Name
Movie · as Vera
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TV · as Jenny Breckenridge · 1 ep
Man on the Ledge
Movie · as Virginia
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Movie · as Jill Hardy
Wichita
Movie · as Laurie McCoy
Rookie of the Year
Movie · as Ruth Dahlberg
Gunsmoke
TV · as Dr. Sam · 1 ep
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV · as Elsa Spann · 1 ep
The Millionaire
TV · as Merle Roberts · 1 ep
Screen Director's Playhouse
TV · as Ruth Dahlberg · 1 ep
The 20th Century Fox Hour
TV · as Virginia · 1 ep
Pride of the Blue Grass
Movie · as Linda
Climax!
TV · as Sally Jordan, Jan Michaels, Janet Reese · 1 ep
Studio 57
TV · as The Little Girl's Mother · 1 ep
The Charge at Feather River
Movie · as Jennie McKeever
So Big
Movie · as Girl (uncredited)
General Electric Theater
TV · as Terry, Mrs. Eaton, Nora Douglas, Debra Stone · 1 ep
City Detective
TV · 1 ep
For Men Only
Movie · as Kathy
The Rose Bowl Story
Movie · as Denny Burke
Four Star Playhouse
TV · as Maggie, Julie Tolin · 1 ep
The Ford Television Theatre
TV · as Nancy Carr · 1 ep
Two Tickets to Broadway
Movie · as Showgirl (uncredited)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
TV · as Julie, Sarah Larkin · 1 ep
When Willie Comes Marching Home
Movie · as Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)
The Screen Writer
Movie · as Young Actress (uncredited)
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Lux Video Theatre
TV · as Maureen O'Reilly, Christine Carroll Kimberly, Jenny, Audrey O'Connor · 1 ep