Vera Miles
Known for: Acting
Born: August 23, 1930
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
75 movies · 70 TV shows, newest first
4.8
Separate Lives
1995
9.0
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
1989
6.0
International Airport
1985
6.5
Into the Night
1985
7.2
Crazy like a Fox
1984
5.5
The Initiation
1984
7.5
Murder, She Wrote
1984
6.8
Finder of Lost Loves
19847.0
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
1984
4.3
BrainWaves
1983
6.5
Psycho II
1983
5.7
Travis McGee
1983
4.3
Mazes and Monsters
1982
6.3
Matt Houston
1982
6.8
Hotel
1982
6.0
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982
9.0
Our Family Business
1981
7.3
Magnum, P.I.
1980
7.0
Roughnecks
1980
7.0
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979
3.4
The Horror Show
1979
6.3
And I Alone Survived
1978
6.5
Fantasy Island
1978
6.3
The Love Boat
1977
7.0
Run for the Roses
1977
7.1
Fire!
1977
7.0
How the West Was Won
19777.0
State Fair
1976
7.5
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
19764.5
McNaughton's Daughter
1976
5.5
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
1976
7.5
Ellery Queen
1975
5.9
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
1974
6.3
Movin' On
1974
8.0
Little House on the Prairie
1974
6.7
The Castaway Cowboy
1974
6.3
The Underground Man
1974
7.8
Live Again, Die Again
1974
5.7
Runaway!
1973
6.3
One Little Indian
1973
5.6
Baffled!
1973
3.3
Molly and Lawless John
1972
7.5
A Great American Tragedy
1972
7.1
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
7.0
Jigsaw
1972
5.2
A Howling in the Woods
1971
6.5
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971
8.1
Columbo
1971
6.7
Cannon
1971
5.0
Cannon
1971
5.3
In Search of America
1971
7.0
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
6.0
The Wild Country
1970
7.2
Dan August
1970
6.4
Medical Center
1969
6.6
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969
NR
Journey to the Unknown
1969
8.0
It Takes All Kinds
1969
6.3
Hellfighters
1968
8.0
Mission Batangas
1968
7.0
Journey to the Unknown
1968
7.2
Hawaii Five-O
1968
7.0
The Name of the Game
1968
3.3
Kona Coast
1968
6.3
Sergeant Ryker
1968
8.5
Gentle Giant
1967
6.8
Mannix
1967
7.7
Judd, for the Defense
1967
5.5
The Spirit Is Willing
1967
6.8
Ironside
1967
6.7
Follow Me, Boys!
1966
5.5
One of Our Spies Is Missing
1966
7.5
Hollywood Squares
1966
6.8
ABC Stage 67
1966
5.6
The F.B.I.
1965
6.5
I Spy
1965
7.1
Run for Your Life
1965
5.1
The Hanged Man
1964
6.5
Those Calloways
1964
7.2
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
7.0
The Unknown
1964
5.8
A Tiger Walks
1964
NR
Recoil
1963
6.5
Kraft Suspense Theatre
19635.9
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
7.3
Mr. Novak
1963
6.3
Burke's Law
1963
7.3
The Fugitive
1963
7.8
The Outer Limits
1963
8.3
Arrest and Trial
1963
7.9
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
6.5
The Virginian
1962
6.7
Sam Benedict
1962
7.8
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
5.6
Back Street
1961
5.7
The Dick Powell Show
1961
6.4
The Lawbreakers
1961
5.0
The Asphalt Jungle
1961
6.7
Route 66
1960
6.6
My Three Sons
1960
8.4
Psycho
1960
6.1
Five Branded Women
1960
6.0
A Touch of Larceny
1960
6.7
The Detectives
1959
6.8
Startime
1959
8.5
The Twilight Zone
1959
6.2
The FBI Story
1959
6.5
Riverboat
1959
7.5
Bonanza
1959
4.7
Web of Evidence
1959
7.2
Rawhide
1959NR
Panic Button
1957
6.6
Wagon Train
1957
5.4
Beau James
1957
7.1
The Wrong Man
1956
6.2
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
7.0
Autumn Leaves
1956
6.7
23 Paces to Baker Street
1956
7.7
The Searchers
1956
7.0
The House Without a Name
1956
7.0
Man on the Ledge
1955
7.0
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
6.0
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
6.7
Gunsmoke
1955
6.3
Wichita
1955
5.3
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955
5.8
The Millionaire
1955
3.8
Climax!
1954
7.5
Studio 57
1954
8.0
Pride of the Blue Grass
1954
5.5
So Big
1953
7.5
City Detective
1953
5.9
The Charge at Feather River
1953
6.8
General Electric Theater
1953
7.8
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
6.8
Four Star Playhouse
1952
4.3
The Rose Bowl Story
1952
6.3
For Men Only
1952
4.6
Two Tickets to Broadway
1951
7.2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
19516.7
Lux Video Theatre
195010.0
The Screen Writer
1950
6.9
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
6.9
When Willie Comes Marching Home
1950