Vera Miles
Known for Acting · 143 credits
- Born
- 1930-08-23 (age 95)
- Place of birth
- Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
- Also known as
- Vera June Ralston · Vera June Miles · ورا مایلز
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
TV Shows (69)
Columbo
1971
as Viveca Scott
Bonanza
1959
as Sarah Lowell / April Christopher
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Elizabeth Gates / Charmaine Calloway Thompson / Nancy Landon
The Love Boat
1977
as Bess Hensinger / Eve Springer
Mannix
1967
as Jean McBride
The Fugitive
1963
as Monica Welles
Hawaii Five-O
1968
as Flora Whiting
Ironside
1967
as Barbara Richards / Barbara Jones / Gloria Campbell
Magnum, P.I.
1980
as Joan Gibson
Wagon Train
1957
as Sister Rita / Janice Stuart
Little House on the Prairie
1974
as Ruthy Leland
Climax!
1954
as Sally Jordan / Jan Michaels / Janet Reese
The Twilight Zone
1959
as Millicent Barnes
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Daphne / Nicky Revere
The Virginian
1962
as Miss Wallace / Maggie Menken
Four Star Playhouse
1952
as Julie Tolin / Maggie
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
as Beth
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Jenny Breckenridge
Rawhide
1959
as Helen Walsh
Hotel
1982
as Teresa Clayborne / Millie Broom
Cannon
1971
as Vivian Cabe
My Three Sons
1960
as Ernestine Coulter
Run for Your Life
1965
as Rachel Pike
The F.B.I.
1965
as Kate Burke
Fantasy Island
1978
as Martha Tate
Burke's Law
1963
as Claudia Sutton
Route 66
1960
as Ellen Barnes
Medical Center
1969
as Dr. Gloria Hall
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969
as Helen Wagner / Janet Devaney
The Name of the Game
1968
as Marisa Cummings / Tracy Cannon
Gunsmoke
1955
as Dr. Sam
The Outer Limits
1963
as Kassia Paine
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
as Self
Matt Houston
1982
The Ford Television Theatre
1952
as Nancy Carr
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Elsa Spann
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979
as Tora
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
as Virginia
The Detectives
1959
as Lucy
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
as Ann Ryker
The Millionaire
1955
as Merle Roberts
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
as Madame Raine De Sala
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971
as Nancy Hodges
Studio 57
1954
as The Little Girl's Mother
Judd, for the Defense
1967
Ellery Queen
1975
as Celeste Wakefield
Crazy like a Fox
1984
as Georgina Burton
I Spy
1965
as Rachel
Riverboat
1959
as Jeanette Mowbray
Startime
1959
as Jean Medwick
Mr. Novak
1963
as Sister Gervaise
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Maureen O'Reilly / Christine Carroll Kimberly / Jenny / Audrey O'Connor
Arrest and Trial
1963
as Jean Forbes
Finder of Lost Loves
1984
as Joanna Shaw
How the West Was Won
1977
as Beth
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
as Ruth Dahlberg
Sam Benedict
1962
ABC Stage 67
1966
as Adele
Movies (74)
Psycho
1960
as Lila Crane
The Searchers
1956
as Laurie Jorgensen
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
as Hallie Stoddard
Into the Night
1985
as Joan Caper
Psycho II
1983
as Lila Loomis
The Initiation
1984
as Frances Fairchild
The Wrong Man
1956
as Rose Balestrero
Hellfighters
1968
as Madelyn Buckman
The Castaway Cowboy
1974
as Henrietta MacAvoy
Cannon
1971
as Diana Langston
Wichita
1955
as Laurie McCoy
Mazes and Monsters
1982
as Cat
Travis McGee
1983
as Julie Lawless
Those Calloways
1964
as Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
Beau James
1957
as Betty Compton
The FBI Story
1959
as Lucy Ann Hardesty
Fire!
1977
as Martha Wagner
One Little Indian
1973
as Doris
The Horror Show
1979
as (archive footage)
Sergeant Ryker
1968
as Ann Ryker
Roughnecks
1980
as Ida McBride
The Wild Country
1970
as Kate Tanner
The Lawbreakers
1961
as Angela Walsh
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
1976
as Erica
When Willie Comes Marching Home
1950
as Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)
Autumn Leaves
1956
as Virginia Hanson
The Charge at Feather River
1953
as Jennie McKeever
BrainWaves
1983
as Marian Koonan
Separate Lives
1995
as Dr. Ruth Goldin
Mission Batangas
1968
as Joan Barnes
The Unknown
1964
as Kassia Paine
Baffled!
1973
as Andrea Glenn
Our Family Business
1981
as Patricia
State Fair
1976
as Melissa Bryant
The Spirit Is Willing
1967
as Kate Powell
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
1984
as Kate Keller
23 Paces to Baker Street
1956
as Jean Lennox
So Big
1953
as Girl (uncredited)
Follow Me, Boys!
1966
as Vida Downey
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
1989
as Sophie Kubacki
The Hanged Man
1964
as Lois Seeger
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955
as Jill Hardy
Runaway!
1973
as Ellen Staffo
The Underground Man
1974
as Eleanor Strom
One of Our Spies Is Missing
1966
as Madame Raine De Sala
Back Street
1961
as Liz Saxon
Five Branded Women
1960
as Daniza
Web of Evidence
1959
as Lena Anderson
Gentle Giant
1967
as Ellen Wedloe
International Airport
1985
as Elaine Corley
A Howling in the Woods
1971
as Rose Staines
A Tiger Walks
1964
as Dorothy Williams
A Touch of Larceny
1960
as Virginia Killain
A Great American Tragedy
1972
as Gloria Wilkes
Molly and Lawless John
1972
as Molly Parker
In Search of America
1971
as Jenny Olson
It Takes All Kinds
1969
as Laura Ring
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976
as Mrs. Horton
And I Alone Survived
1978
as Irene Elder
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
1974
as Christine Rhodes
Jigsaw
1972
as Lilah Beth Cummings
Journey to the Unknown
1969
as June Wiley
Man on the Ledge
1955
as Virginia
Kona Coast
1968
as Melissa Hyde
Pride of the Blue Grass
1954
as Linda
Live Again, Die Again
1974
as Marcia Carmichael
Two Tickets to Broadway
1951
as Showgirl (uncredited)
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982
The Rose Bowl Story
1952
as Denny Burke
For Men Only
1952
as Kathy
The House Without a Name
1956
Run for the Roses
1977
as Clarissa Stewart
The Screen Writer
1950
as Young Actress (uncredited)
Recoil
1963
as Lucy
About Vera Miles
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… With 143 credits spanning from 1950 to 1995, Vera Miles has appeared in 74 films and 69 TV shows.
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Most Popular Vera Miles Movies
- Psycho (1960) — as Lila Crane
- The Searchers (1956) — as Laurie Jorgensen
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) — as Hallie Stoddard
- Into the Night (1985) — as Joan Caper
- Psycho II (1983) — as Lila Loomis
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