Vera Miles
Vera Miles
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.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
170
Gender
Female
Birthday
1929-08-23 (95 years old)
Place of Birth
Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
Acting

2015

Hitchcock/Truffaut as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2010

The Psycho Legacy as Self (archive footage)

1995

Separate Lives as Dr. Ruth Goldin

1993

24 Hour Psycho as Lila Crane (archive footage)

1989

The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro as Sophie Kubacki

1985

Into the Night as Joan Caper

1985

International Airport as Elaine Corley

1984

Murder, She Wrote as Elizabeth Gates

1984

Murder, She Wrote as Charmaine Calloway Thompson

1984

Murder, She Wrote as Nancy Landon

1984

Finder of Lost Loves as Joanna Shaw

1984

Crazy like a Fox as Georgina Burton

1984

The Initiation as Frances Fairchild

1983

Psycho II as Lila Loomis

1983

Travis McGee as Julie Lawless

1983

BrainWaves as Marian Koonan

1982

Hotel as Not available

1982

Hotel as Teresa Clayborne

1982

Hotel as Millie Broom

1982

Matt Houston as Not available

1982

Mazes and Monsters as Cat

1981

Our Family Business as Patricia

1980

Magnum, P.I. as Joan Gibson

1980

Roughnecks as Ida McBride

1979

The Horror Show as (archive footage)

1978

Fantasy Island as Martha Tate

1978

And I Alone Survived as Irene Elder

1977

The Love Boat as Bess Hensinger

1977

The Love Boat as Eve Springer

1977

Fire! as Martha Wagner

1977

Run for the Roses as Clarissa Stewart

1976

McNaughton's Daughter as Grace Coventry

1976

State Fair as Melissa Bryant

1975

Ellery Queen as Celeste Wakefield

1974

Little House on the Prairie as Ruthy Leland

1974

Movin' On as Not available

1974

The Castaway Cowboy as Henrietta MacAvoy

1974

Live Again, Die Again as Marcia Carmichael

1974

The Underground Man as Eleanor Strom

1974

The Strange and Deadly Occurrence as Christine Rhodes

1973

Baffled! as Andrea Glenn

1973

One Little Indian as Doris

1973

Runaway! as Ellen Staffo

1972

The Streets of San Francisco as Not available

1972

A Great American Tragedy as Gloria Wilkes

1972

Jigsaw as Lilah Beth Cummings

1972

Molly and Lawless John as Molly Parker

1971

Columbo as Viveca Scott

1971

Cannon as Not available

1971

Alias Smith and Jones as Not available

1971

A Howling in the Woods as Rose Staines

1971

Cannon as Diana Langston

1971

In Search of America as Jenny Olson

1970

Dan August as Carla

1970

The Wild Country as Kate Tanner

1969

Marcus Welby, M.D. as Helen Wagner

1969

Marcus Welby, M.D. as Janet Devaney

1969

Medical Center as Not available

1969

Medical Center as Dr. Gloria Hall

1969

It Takes All Kinds as Laura Ring

1969

Journey to the Unknown as June Wiley

1968

Hawaii Five-O as Flora Whiting

1968

The Name of the Game as Marisa Cummings

1968

The Name of the Game as Tracy Cannon

1968

Journey to the Unknown as June Wiley

1968

Hellfighters as Madelyn Buckman

1968

Sergeant Ryker as Ann Ryker

1968

Mission Batangas as Joan Barnes

1968

Kona Coast as Melissa Hyde

1967

Ironside as Barbara Richards

1967

Ironside as Barbara Jones

1967

Ironside as Gloria Campbell

1967

Mannix as Jean McBride

1967

Judd for the Defense as Not available

1967

The Spirit Is Willing as Kate Powell

1967

Gentle Giant as Ellen Wedloe

1966

ABC Stage 67 as Adele

1966

Follow Me, Boys! as Vida Downey

1966

One of Our Spies Is Missing as Madame Raine De Sala

1965

The F.B.I. as Kate Burke

1965

Run for Your Life as Rachel Pike

1965

I Spy as Rachel

1964

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Madame Raine De Sala

1964

The Hanged Man as Lois Seeger

1964

Those Calloways as Lydia (Liddy) Calloway

1964

A Tiger Walks as Dorothy Williams

1964

The Unknown as Kassia Paine

1963

The Fugitive as Monica Welles

1963

Burke's Law as Claudia Sutton

1963

Mr. Novak as Sister Gervaise

1963

The Outer Limits as Kassia Paine

1963

Kraft Suspense Theatre as Ann Ryker

1963

Arrest and Trial as Jean Forbes

1962

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Nicky Revere

1962

The Virginian as Miss Wallace

1962

The Virginian as Maggie Menken

1962

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as Hallie Stoddard

1962

Sam Benedict as Not available

1961

The Dick Powell Show as Stella Calman

1961

The Asphalt Jungle as Not available

1961

Back Street as Liz Saxon

1961

The Lawbreakers as Angela Walsh

1960

My Three Sons as Ernestine Coulter

1960

Route 66 as Ellen Barnes

1960

Psycho as Lila Crane

1960

Five Branded Women as Daniza

1960

A Touch of Larceny as Virginia Killain

1959

Bonanza as Sarah Lowell

1959

Bonanza as April Christopher

1959

The Twilight Zone as Millicent Barnes

1959

Rawhide as Not available

1959

Rawhide as Helen Walsh

1959

Riverboat as Jeanette Mowbray

1959

Startime as Jean Medwick

1959

The Detectives as Lucy

1959

The FBI Story as Lucy Ann Hardesty

1959

Web of Evidence as Lena Anderson

1957

Wagon Train as Sister Rita

1957

Wagon Train as Janice Stuart

1957

Beau James as Betty Compton

1956

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Jenny Breckenridge

1956

The Searchers as Laurie Jorgensen

1956

The Wrong Man as Rose Balestrero

1956

23 Paces to Baker Street as Jean Lennox

1956

Autumn Leaves as Virginia Hanson

1956

The House Without a Name as Not available

1955

The 20th Century Fox Hour as Virginia

1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Elsa Spann

1955

The Millionaire as Merle Roberts

1955

Gunsmoke as Dr. Sam

1955

Screen Director's Playhouse as Ruth Dahlberg

1955

Wichita as Laurie McCoy

1955

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle as Jill Hardy

1955

Man on the Ledge as Virginia

1954

Climax! as Sally Jordan

1954

Climax! as Jan Michaels

1954

Climax! as Janet Reese

1954

Studio 57 as The Little Girl's Mother

1953

City Detective as Not available

1953

General Electric Theater as Mrs. Eaton

1953

General Electric Theater as Not available

1953

General Electric Theater as Nora Douglas

1953

General Electric Theater as Debra Stone

1953

So Big as Girl (uncredited)

1953

The Charge at Feather River as Jennie McKeever

1952

Four Star Playhouse as Julie Tolin

1952

Four Star Playhouse as Maggie

1952

The Ford Television Theatre as Nancy Carr

1952

The Rose Bowl Story as Denny Burke

1952

For Men Only as Kathy

1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Sarah Larkin

1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Not available

1951

Two Tickets to Broadway as Showgirl (uncredited)

1950

Lux Video Theatre as Maureen O'Reilly

1950

Lux Video Theatre as Christine Carroll Kimberly

1950

Lux Video Theatre as Jenny

1950

Lux Video Theatre as Audrey O'Connor

1950

When Willie Comes Marching Home as Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)

1950

The Screen Writer as Young Actress (uncredited)