Vera Miles
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Columbo
Viveca Scott
1971
Series
The Love Boat
Bess Hensinger
1977
Series
The Love Boat
Eve Springer
1977
Series
Bonanza
Sarah Lowell
1959
Series
Bonanza
April Christopher
1959
Series
Wagon Train
Sister Rita
1957
Series
Wagon Train
Janice Stuart
1957
Series
Wagon Train
1957
Series
Little House on the Prairie
Ruthy Leland
1974
Series
Magnum, P.I.
Joan Gibson
1980
Series
Ironside
Barbara Richards
1967
Series
Ironside
Barbara Jones
1967
Series
Ironside
Gloria Campbell
1967
Series
Murder, She Wrote
Elizabeth Gates
1984
Series
Murder, She Wrote
Charmaine Calloway Thompson
1984
Series
Murder, She Wrote
Nancy Landon
1984
Series
The Fugitive
Monica Welles
1963
Series
Hawaii Five-O
Flora Whiting
1969
Series
Mannix
Jean McBride
1967
Series
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Daphne
1962
Series
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Nicky Revere
1962
Series
My Three Sons
Ernestine Coulter
1960
Series
The Twilight Zone
Millicent Barnes
1959
Series
The Virginian
Miss Wallace
1962
Series
The Virginian
Maggie Menken
1962
Series
Climax!
Sally Jordan
1954
Series
Climax!
Jan Michaels
1954
Series
Climax!
Janet Reese
1954
Series
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Jenny Breckenridge
1956
Series
Cannon
1971
Series
Cannon
Vivian Cabe
1971
Series
Hotel
1982
Series
Hotel
Teresa Clayborne
1982
Series
Hotel
Millie Broom
1982
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Beth
1963
Series
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Helen Wagner
1969
Series
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Janet Devaney
1969
Series
Four Star Playhouse
Julie Tolin
1952
Series
Four Star Playhouse
Maggie
1952
Series
Rawhide
1959
Series
Rawhide
Helen Walsh
1959
Series
Fantasy Island
Martha Tate
1978
Series
Route 66
Ellen Barnes
1960
Series
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
1950
Series
Medical Center
1969
Series
Medical Center
Dr. Gloria Hall
1969
Series
Burke's Law
Claudia Sutton
1963
Series
The F.B.I.
Kate Burke
1965
Series
Run for Your Life
Rachel Pike
1965
Series
The Name of the Game
Marisa Cummings
1968
Series
The Name of the Game
Tracy Cannon
1968
Series
Gunsmoke
Dr. Sam
1955
Series
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Elsa Spann
1955
Series
Matt Houston
1982
Series
The Ford Television Theatre
Nancy Carr
1952
Series
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Ann Ryker
1963
Series
Studio 57
The Little Girl's Mother
1954
Series
The Detectives
Lucy
1959
Film
Psycho
Lila Crane
1960
Series
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Tora
1979
Series
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Madame Raine De Sala
1964
Series
The Outer Limits
Kassia Paine
1963
Series
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Series
The Millionaire
Merle Roberts
1955
Series
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Series
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Virginia
1955
Series
Judd, for the Defense
1967
Series
Hollywood Squares
Self
1966
Series
Hollywood Squares
Self - Center Square
1966
Series
Ellery Queen
Celeste Wakefield
1975
Series
Mr. Novak
Sister Gervaise
1963
Series
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Nancy Hodges
1971
Series
I Spy
Rachel
1965
Series
Riverboat
Jeanette Mowbray
1959
Series
How the West Was Won
Beth
1977
Series
Crazy like a Fox
Georgina Burton
1984
Series
Lux Video Theatre
Maureen O'Reilly
1950
Series
Lux Video Theatre
Christine Carroll Kimberly
1950
Series
Lux Video Theatre
Jenny
1950
Series
Lux Video Theatre
Audrey O'Connor
1950
Series
Arrest and Trial
Jean Forbes
1963
Series
The Dick Powell Show
Stella Calman
1961
Series
Startime
Jean Medwick
1959
Series
Screen Director's Playhouse
Ruth Dahlberg
1955
Series
Finder of Lost Loves
Joanna Shaw
1984
Series
Sam Benedict
1962
Film
The Searchers
Laurie Jorgensen
1956
Series
City Detective
1953
Series
ABC Stage 67
Adele
1966
Series
Dan August
Carla
1970
Series
Journey to the Unknown
June Wiley
1968
Series
Movin' On
1974
Series
The Asphalt Jungle
1961
Film
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Hallie Stoddard
1962
Film
Psycho II
Lila Loomis
1983
Series
General Electric Theater
Terry
1953
Series
General Electric Theater
Mrs. Eaton
1953
Series
General Electric Theater
1953
Series
General Electric Theater
Nora Douglas
1953
Series
General Electric Theater
Debra Stone
1953
Series
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Julie
1951
Series
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Sarah Larkin
1951
Series
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Film
Into the Night
Joan Caper
1985
Film
Hellfighters
Madelyn Buckman
1968
Film
The Wrong Man
Rose Balestrero
1956
Series
McNaughton's Daughter
Grace Coventry
1976
Film
A Touch of Larceny
Virginia Killain
1960
Film
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Jill Hardy
1955
Film
Back Street
Liz Saxon
1961
Film
Web of Evidence
Lena Anderson
1959
Film
Mazes and Monsters
Cat
1982
Film
Wichita
Laurie McCoy
1955
Film
The Initiation
Frances Fairchild
1984
Film
Two Tickets to Broadway
Showgirl (uncredited)
1951
Film
Autumn Leaves
Virginia Hanson
1956
Film
One Little Indian
Doris
1973
Film
One of Our Spies Is Missing
Madame Raine De Sala
1966
Film
The Wild Country
Kate Tanner
1970
Film
23 Paces to Baker Street
Jean Lennox
1956
Film
The Charge at Feather River
Jennie McKeever
1953
Film
The Unknown
Kassia Paine
1964
Film
Separate Lives
Dr. Ruth Goldin
1995
Film
Baffled!
Andrea Glenn
1973
Film
Those Calloways
Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
1964
Film
When Willie Comes Marching Home
Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)
1950
Film
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
Erica
1976
Film
Jigsaw
Lilah Beth Cummings
1972
Film
The FBI Story
Lucy Ann Hardesty
1959
Film
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
Self
1982
Film
The Spirit Is Willing
Kate Powell
1967
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
Kate Keller
1984
Film
Five Branded Women
Daniza
1960
Film
Follow Me, Boys!
Vida Downey
1966
Film
It Takes All Kinds
Laura Ring
1969
Film
The Castaway Cowboy
Henrietta MacAvoy
1974
Film
Sergeant Ryker
Ann Ryker
1968
Film
And I Alone Survived
Irene Elder
1978
Film
A Howling in the Woods
Rose Staines
1971
Film
A Great American Tragedy
Gloria Wilkes
1972
Film
BrainWaves
Marian Koonan
1983
Film
The Hanged Man
Lois Seeger
1964
Film
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
Christine Rhodes
1974
Film
Man on the Ledge
Virginia
1955
Film
The Rose Bowl Story
Denny Burke
1952
Film
The Horror Show
(archive footage)
1979
Film
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
Sophie Kubacki
1989
Film
Run for the Roses
Clarissa Stewart
1977
Film
So Big
Girl (uncredited)
1953
Film
Molly and Lawless John
Molly Parker
1972
Film
The House Without a Name
Vera
1956
Panic Button
Carolyn Cook
1957
Film
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Mrs. Horton
1976
Film
A Tiger Walks
Dorothy Williams
1964
Film
Fire!
Martha Wagner
1977
Film
The Underground Man
Eleanor Strom
1974
Film
Live Again, Die Again
Marcia Carmichael
1974
Film
Pride of the Blue Grass
Linda
1954
Film
Beau James
Betty Compton
1957
Film
Runaway!
Ellen Staffo
1973
Film
For Men Only
Kathy
1952
Film
Cannon
Diana Langston
1971
Film
Our Family Business
Patricia
1981
Film
Journey to the Unknown
June Wiley
1969
Film
Recoil
Lucy
1963
Film
The Lawbreakers
Angela Walsh
1961
Film
Gentle Giant
Ellen Wedloe
1967
Film
Travis McGee
Julie Lawless
1983
Film
Rookie of the Year
Ruth Dahlberg
1955
Film
International Airport
Elaine Corley
1985
State Fair
Melissa Bryant
1976
The Screen Writer
Young Actress (uncredited)
1950
Film
Kona Coast
Melissa Hyde
1968
Film
Roughnecks
Ida McBride
1980
Film
In Search of America
Jenny Olson
1971
Film
Mission Batangas
Joan Barnes
1968