Vera Miles
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 23, 1930
- Birthplace
- Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
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.
Filmography
Separate Lives 1995
as Dr. Ruth Goldin
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro 1989
as Sophie Kubacki
International Airport 1985
as Elaine Corley
Into the Night 1985
as Joan Caper
The Initiation 1984
as Frances Fairchild
- Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues 1984
as Kate Keller
BrainWaves 1983
as Marian Koonan
Psycho II 1983
as Lila Loomis
Travis McGee 1983
as Julie Lawless
Mazes and Monsters 1982
as Cat
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady 1982
as Self
Our Family Business 1981
as Patricia
Roughnecks 1980
as Ida McBride
The Horror Show 1979
as (archive footage)
And I Alone Survived 1978
as Irene Elder
Run for the Roses 1977
as Clarissa Stewart
Fire! 1977
as Martha Wagner
- State Fair
State Fair 1976
as Melissa Bryant
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys 1976
as Mrs. Horton
Smash-Up on Interstate 5 1976
as Erica
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence 1974
as Christine Rhodes
The Castaway Cowboy 1974
as Henrietta MacAvoy
The Underground Man 1974
as Eleanor Strom
Live Again, Die Again 1974
as Marcia Carmichael
Runaway! 1973
as Ellen Staffo
One Little Indian 1973
as Doris
Baffled! 1973
as Andrea Glenn
Molly and Lawless John 1972
as Molly Parker
A Great American Tragedy 1972
as Gloria Wilkes
Jigsaw 1972
as Lilah Beth Cummings
A Howling in the Woods 1971
as Rose Staines
Cannon 1971
as Diana Langston
In Search of America 1971
as Jenny Olson
The Wild Country 1970
as Kate Tanner
Journey to the Unknown 1969
as June Wiley
It Takes All Kinds 1969
as Laura Ring
Hellfighters 1968
as Madelyn Buckman
Mission Batangas 1968
as Joan Barnes
Kona Coast 1968
as Melissa Hyde
Sergeant Ryker 1968
as Ann Ryker
Gentle Giant 1967
as Ellen Wedloe
The Spirit Is Willing 1967
as Kate Powell
One of Our Spies Is Missing 1966
as Madame Raine De Sala
Follow Me, Boys! 1966
as Vida Downey
The Hanged Man 1964
as Lois Seeger
Those Calloways 1964
as Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
The Unknown 1964
as Kassia Paine
A Tiger Walks 1964
as Dorothy Williams
Recoil 1963
as Lucy
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 1962
as Hallie Stoddard
Back Street 1961
as Liz Saxon
The Lawbreakers 1961
as Angela Walsh
Psycho 1960
as Lila Crane
Five Branded Women 1960
as Daniza
A Touch of Larceny 1960
as Virginia Killain
The FBI Story 1959
as Lucy Ann Hardesty
Web of Evidence 1959
as Lena Anderson
- Panic Button
Panic Button 1957
as Carolyn Cook
Beau James 1957
as Betty Compton
The Wrong Man 1956
as Rose Balestrero
Autumn Leaves 1956
as Virginia Hanson
23 Paces to Baker Street 1956
as Jean Lennox
The Searchers 1956
as Laurie Jorgensen
The House Without a Name 1956
as Vera
Man on the Ledge 1955
as Virginia
Rookie of the Year 1955
as Ruth Dahlberg
Wichita 1955
as Laurie McCoy
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle 1955
as Jill Hardy
Pride of the Blue Grass 1954
as Linda
So Big 1953
as Girl (uncredited)
The Charge at Feather River 1953
as Jennie McKeever
The Rose Bowl Story 1952
as Denny Burke
For Men Only 1952
as Kathy
Two Tickets to Broadway 1951
as Showgirl (uncredited)
- The Screen Writer
The Screen Writer 1950
as Young Actress (uncredited)
When Willie Comes Marching Home 1950
as Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)
Credits from TMDB.