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