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