Vera Miles
Acting
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.
Born: August 23, 1930
Place of Birth: Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
Known For
Filmography
as Dr. Ruth Goldin
as Lila Crane (archive footage)
as Sophie Kubacki
as Elaine Corley
as Joan Caper
as Georgina Burton
as Frances Fairchild
as Elizabeth Gates
as Charmaine Calloway Thompson
as Nancy Landon
as Joanna Shaw
as Marian Koonan
as Lila Loomis
as Julie Lawless
as Cat
as Teresa Clayborne
as Millie Broom
as Patricia
as Joan Gibson
as Ida McBride
as (archive footage)
as Irene Elder
as Martha Tate
as Bess Hensinger
as Eve Springer
as Clarissa Stewart
as Martha Wagner
as Beth
as Mrs. Horton
as Grace Coventry
as Erica
as Celeste Wakefield
as Christine Rhodes
as Ruthy Leland
as Henrietta MacAvoy
as Eleanor Strom
as Marcia Carmichael
as Ellen Staffo
as Doris
as Andrea Glenn
as Molly Parker
as Gloria Wilkes
as Lilah Beth Cummings
as Rose Staines
as Nancy Hodges
as Viveca Scott
as Diana Langston
as Jenny Olson
as Kate Tanner
as Carla
as Dr. Gloria Hall
as Helen Wagner
as Janet Devaney
as June Wiley
as Laura Ring
as Madelyn Buckman
as Joan Barnes
as June Wiley
as Flora Whiting
as Marisa Cummings
as Tracy Cannon
as Melissa Hyde
as Ann Ryker
as Ellen Wedloe
as Jean McBride
as Kate Powell
as Barbara Richards
as Barbara Jones
as Gloria Campbell
as Vida Downey
as Madame Raine De Sala
as Adele
as Kate Burke
as Rachel
as Rachel Pike
as Lois Seeger
as Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
as Madame Raine De Sala
as Kassia Paine
as Dorothy Williams
as Ann Ryker
as Sister Gervaise
as Claudia Sutton
as Monica Welles
as Kassia Paine
as Jean Forbes
as Daphne
as Nicky Revere
as Miss Wallace
as Maggie Menken
as Hallie Stoddard
as Liz Saxon
as Stella Calman
as Angela Walsh
as Ellen Barnes
as Ernestine Coulter
as Lila Crane
as Daniza
as Virginia Killain
as Lucy
as Jean Medwick
as Millicent Barnes
as Lucy Ann Hardesty
as Jeanette Mowbray
as April Christopher
as Sarah Lowell
as Lena Anderson
as Helen Walsh
as Sister Rita
as Janice Stuart
as Betty Compton
as Rose Balestrero
as Jenny Breckenridge
as Virginia Hanson
as Jean Lennox
as Laurie Jorgensen
as Virginia
as Ruth Dahlberg
as Virginia
as Elsa Spann
as Dr. Sam
as Laurie McCoy
as Jill Hardy
as Merle Roberts
as Sally Jordan
as Jan Michaels
as Janet Reese
as The Little Girl's Mother
as Linda
as Girl (uncredited)
as Jennie McKeever
as Terry
as Mrs. Eaton
as Nora Douglas
as Debra Stone
as Nancy Carr
as Denny Burke
as Kathy
as Showgirl (uncredited)
as Julie
as Sarah Larkin
as Self
as Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)