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