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Vera Miles
Actor
Born August 23, 1929 (92 years)
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
| 2013 | John Ford et Monument Valley · as actor |
| 1995 | Separate Lives · as Dr. Ruth Goldin |
| 1985 | Into the Night · as Joan Caper |
| 1985 | International Airport · as Elaine Corley |
| 1985 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) (TV Series) · as actor |
| 1984 | The Initiation · as Frances Fairchild |
| 1984 | Crazy Like A Fox (TV Series) · as Georgina Burton |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) · as Elizabeth Gates |
| 1983 | Psycho II · as Lila Crane Loomis |
| 1983 | Hotel (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1982 | Mazes and Monsters · as Cat |
| 1982 | BrainWaves · as Marian Koonan |
| 1981 | Simon & Simon (TV Series) · as Catherine Van Alder-Vicente |
| 1980 | Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1979 | The Horror Show · as actor |
| 1979 | Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV Series) · as Tora |
| 1977 | Fire · as Martha Wagner |
| 1977 | Run for the Roses · as Clarissa Stewart |
| 1977 | Fantasy Island (TV Series) · as Martha Tate |
| 1977 | The Love Boat (TV Series) · as Bess Hensinger |
| 1976 | How the West Was Won (TV Series) · as Beth |
| 1975 | Ellery Queen (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1974 | The Castaway Cowboy · as Henrietta MacAvoy |
| 1974 | Movin' On (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1974 | Little House on the Prairie (TV Series) · as Ruthy Leland |
| 1973 | One Little Indian · as Doris |
| 1973 | Barnaby Jones (TV Series) · as Diane Magnus |
| 1972 | Baffled · as Andrea Glenn |
| 1972 | Molly and Lawless John · as Molly Parker |
| 1972 | The Streets of San Francisco (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1971 | The American West of John Ford · as actress 'The Searchers' |
| 1971 | A Howling in the Woods · as Rose Staines |
| 1971 | Columbo (TV Series) · as Viveca Scott |
| 1971 | Cannon (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1971 | Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1970 | The Wild Country · as Kate Tanner |
| 1969 | It Takes All Kinds · as Laura Ring |
| 1969 | Marcus Welby, M.D. (TV Series) · as Helen Wagner |
| 1968 | Hellfighters · as Madelyn Buckman |
| 1968 | Kona Coast · as Melissa Hyde |
| 1968 | Sergeant Ryker · as Ann Ryker |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game (TV Series) · as Marisa Cummings |
| 1968 | Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) · as Flora Whiting |
| 1968 | The Green Berets · as Mrs. Lee Kirby |
| 1967 | The Spirit Is Willing · as Kate Powell |
| 1967 | Gentle Giant · as Ellen Wedloe |
| 1967 | Off to See the Wizard (TV Series) · as Gypsy Queen |
| 1967 | Ironside (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1967 | Mannix (TV Series) · as Jean McBride |
| 1966 | Follow Me, Boys! · as Vida Downey |
| 1966 | One of Our Spies Is Missing · as Madame Raine De Sala |
| 1965 | Those Calloways · as Lydia (Liddy) Calloway |
| 1965 | The F.B.I. (TV Series) · as Kate Burke |
| 1965 | I Spy (TV Series) · as Rachel |
| 1964 | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) · as Madame Raine De Sala |
| 1963 | The Outer Limits (TV Series) · as Kassia Paine |
| 1963 | The Fugitive (TV Series) · as Monica Welles |
| 1963 | Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) · as Ann Ryker |
| 1963 | Arrest and Trial (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1962 | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance · as Hallie Stoddard |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) · as Daphne |
| 1962 | The Virginian (TV Series) · as Miss Wallace |
| 1961 | Back Street · as Liz Saxon |
| 1961 | The Lawbreakers · as Angela Walsh |
| 1960 | Psycho · as Lila Crane |
| 1960 | A Touch of Larceny · as Virginia Killain |
| 1960 | My Three Sons (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1960 | Checkmate (TV Series) · as Zoe Kamens |
| 1960 | Route 66 (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1959 | The FBI Story · as Lucy Ann Hardesty |
| 1959 | Web of Evidence · as Lena Anderson |
| 1959 | Riverboat (TV Series) · as Jeanette Mowbray |
| 1959 | Rawhide (TV Series) · as Helen Walsh |
| 1959 | |
| 1959 | The Detectives (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1959 | Laramie (TV Series) · as Anne Andrews |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone (TV Series) · as Millicent Barnes |
| 1957 | Beau James · as Betty Compton |
| 1957 | Wagon Train (TV Series) · as Anne Reed |
| 1956 | The Searchers · as Laurie Jorgensen |
| 1956 | 23 Paces to Baker Street · as Jean Lennox |
| 1956 | Autumn Leaves · as Virginia Hanson |
| 1956 | Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) · as Jenny Breckenridge |
| 1956 | The Wrong Man · as Rose Balestrero |
| 1955 | Tarzan's Hidden Jungle · as Jill Hardy |
| 1955 | Wichita · as Laurie McCoy |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Dr. Sam |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) · as Elsa Spann |
| 1954 | Climax! (TV Series) · as Sally Jordan |
| 1954 | Disneyland (TV Series) · as Kate Tannen |
| 1954 | Medic (TV Series) · as Jane Agnes Caldwell |
| 1953 | The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms · as Trailer Commentator |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as Nora Douglas |
| 1952 | For Men Only · as Kathy |
| 1952 | Four Star Playhouse (TV Series) · as Julie Tolin |
| 1950 | The Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) · as Christine Carroll Kimberly |
| 1950 | The Colgate Comedy Hour (TV Series) · as Unknown |