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Vera Miles

Actor
Born August 23, 1929 (95 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.
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Bonanza
  • Mazes and Monsters
  • Route 66
  • Baffled
  • Molly and Lawless John
  • Four Star Playhouse
Known For
  • Psycho
  • The Searchers
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  • The Wrong Man
  • Psycho II
  • The Initiation
  • The FBI Story
  • Hellfighters
  • 23 Paces to Baker Street
  • Follow Me, Boys!
  • Wichita
  • Autumn Leaves
  • Mazes and Monsters
  • The Castaway Cowboy
  • Back Street
  • Those Calloways
  • One Little Indian
  • Separate Lives
  • Molly and Lawless John
  • Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
  • The Spirit Is Willing
  • A Touch of Larceny
  • The Charge at Feather River
  • BrainWaves

Filmography

2019
Hitchcock Confidential · as Lila Crane
2013
2001
Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation · as Lila Crane (psycho)
1995
Separate Lives · as Dr. Ruth Goldin
1993
24 Hour Psycho · as Lila Crane (archive Footage)
1989
1985
International Airport · as Elaine Corley
1985
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985) (TV Series) · as Cast
1985
Into the Night · as Joan Caper
1984
Crazy Like A Fox (TV Series) · as Georgina Burton
1984
The Initiation · as Frances Fairchild
1984
Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) · as Charmaine Calloway Thompson
1984
Finder of Lost Loves (TV Series) · as Joanna Shaw
1984
1983
Hotel (TV Series)
1983
Psycho II · as Lila Loomis
1983
Travis McGee · as Julie Lawless
1982
1982
Matt Houston (TV Series)
1982
BrainWaves · as Marian Koonan
1981
Simon & Simon (TV Series) · as Catherine Van Alder-Vicente
1980
Magnum, P.I. (TV Series)
1979
Trapper John, M.D. (TV Series) · as Dr. Liz Waleska
1979
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV Series) · as Tora
1979
The Horror Show · as (archive Footage)
1978
And I Alone Survived · as Irene Elder
1977
Run for the Roses · as Clarissa Stewart
1977
Fire · as Martha Wagner
1977
The Love Boat (TV Series) · as Eve Springer
1977
Fantasy Island (TV Series) · as Martha Tate
1976
1976
State Fair · as Melissa Bryant
1976
1976
How the West Was Won (TV Series) · as Beth
1975
Ellery Queen (TV Series) · as Celeste Wakefield
1974
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence · as Christine Rhodes
1974
The Castaway Cowboy · as Henrietta Macavoy
1974
Movin' On (TV Series)
1974
The Underground Man · as Eleanor Strom
1974
Little House on the Prairie (TV Series) · as Ruthy Leland
1974
Live Again, Die Again · as Marcia Carmichael
1973
Runaway! · as Ellen Staffo
1973
One Little Indian · as Doris
1973
Barnaby Jones (TV Series) · as Diane Magnus
1972
Baffled · as Andrea Glenn
1972
1972
A Great American Tragedy · as Gloria Wilkes
1972
1972
Jigsaw · as Lilah Beth Cummings
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)
1971
Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law (TV Series) · as Joan Baldwin
1971
Cannon · as Diana Langston
1971
In Search of America · as Jenny Olson
1971
1970
The Wild Country · as Kate Tanner
1970
Dan August (TV Series) · as Carla
1969
Journey to the Unknown · as June Wiley (episode 'matakitas Is Coming'
1969
It Takes All Kinds · as Laura Ring
1969
Medical Center (TV Series) · as Dr. Gloria Hall
1969
Marcus Welby, M.D. (TV Series) · as Helen Wagner
1968
Hellfighters · as Madelyn Buckman
1968
Mission Batangas · as Joan Barnes
1968
Journey to the Unknown (TV Series) · as June Wiley
1968
The Name of the Game (TV Series) · as Tracy Cannon
1968
Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) · as Flora Whiting
1968
The Green Berets · as Mrs. Lee Kirby
1968
Kona Coast · as Melissa Hyde
1968
Sergeant Ryker · as Ann Ryker
1967
Gentle Giant · as Ellen Wedloe
1967
Mannix (TV Series) · as Jean Mcbride
1967
1967
Off to See the Wizard (TV Series) · as Gypsy Queen
1967
The Spirit Is Willing · as Kate Powell
1967
Ironside (TV Series) · as Barbara Richards
1966
Follow Me, Boys! · as Vida Downey
1966
ABC Stage 67 (TV Series) · as Adele
1966
One of Our Spies Is Missing · as Madame Raine De Sala
1965
The F.B.I. (TV Series) · as Kate Burke
1965
I Spy (TV Series) · as Rachel
1965
Run for Your Life (TV Series) · as Rachel Pike
1965
Those Calloways · as Lydia (liddy) Calloway
1964
The Hanged Man · as Lois Seeger
1964
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) · as Madame Raine De Sala
1964
Slattery's People (TV Series) · as Lucy Hampton
1964
The Unknown · as Kassia Paine
1964
A Tiger Walks · as Dorothy Williams
1963
Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) · as Ann Ryker
1963
1963
Mr. Novak (TV Series) · as Sister Gervaise
1963
Burke's Law (TV Series) · as Claudia Sutton
1963
The Fugitive (TV Series) · as Monica Welles
1963
The Outer Limits (TV Series) · as Kassia Paine
1963
Arrest and Trial (TV Series) · as Jean Forbes
1963
The Fugitive · as Monica Welles
1962
The Eleventh Hour (TV Series) · as Ann Costigan
1962
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) · as Daphne
1962
The Virginian (TV Series) · as Miss Wallace
1962
Sam Benedict (TV Series)
1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance · as Hallie Stoddard
1961
Back Street · as Liz Saxon
1961
Frontier Circus (TV Series) · as Maureen Mcbride
1961
The Dick Powell Show (TV Series) · as Stella Calman
1961
The Lawbreakers · as Angela Walsh
1961
The Asphalt Jungle (TV Series)
1960
A Touch of Larceny · as Virginia Killain
1960
Route 66 (TV Series) · as Ellen Barnes
1960
Insight (TV Series) · as Lucy
1960
My Three Sons (TV Series) · as Ernestine Coulter
1960
Checkmate (TV Series) · as Zoe Kamens
1960
Psycho · as Lila Crane
1960
5 Branded Women · as Daniza
1959
The Detectives (1959) (TV Series) · as Lucy
1959
Ford Startime (TV Series) · as Jean Medwick
1959
The Twilight Zone (TV Series) · as Millicent Barnes
1959
The FBI Story · as Lucy Ann Hardesty
1959
Laramie (TV Series) · as Anne Andrews
1959
Riverboat (TV Series) · as Jeanette Mowbray
1959
Bonanza (TV Series) · as Sarah Lowell
1959
Web of Evidence · as Lena Anderson
1959
Rawhide (TV Series) · as Helen Walsh
1957
Wagon Train (TV Series) · as Janice Stuart
1957
Beau James · as Betty Compton
1956
The Wrong Man · as Rose Balestrero
1956
Autumn Leaves · as Virginia Hanson
1956
Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) · as Jenny Breckenridge
1956
Playhouse 90 (TV Series) · as Carolyn Cook
1956
23 Paces to Baker Street · as Jean Lennox
1956
The Searchers · as Laurie Jorgensen
1955
1955
Screen Directors Playhouse (TV Series) · as Ruth Dahlberg
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) · as Elsa Spann
1955
Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Dr. Sam
1955
Wichita · as Laurie Mccoy
1955
Science Fiction Theatre (TV Series) · as Dr. Jan Corey
1955
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle · as Jill Hardy
1955
The Millionaire (TV Series) · as Merle Roberts
1954
Disneyland (TV Series) · as Kate Tannen
1954
Climax! (TV Series) · as Jan Michaels
1954
Studio 57 (TV Series) · as The Little Girl's Mother
1954
Medic (TV Series) · as Jane Agnes Caldwell
1954
1953
So Big · as Girl (uncredited)
1953
The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (TV Series) · as Daughter
1953
The Charge at Feather River · as Jennie Mckeever
1953
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms · as Trailer Commentator
1953
General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as Mrs. Eaton
1952
Ford Theatre: All Star Theatre (TV Series) · as Angela
1952
Four Star Playhouse (TV Series) · as Julie Tolin
1952
The Rose Bowl Story · as Denny Burke
1952
For Men Only · as Kathy
1951
Two Tickets to Broadway · as Showgirl (uncredited)
1951
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (TV Series) · as Sarah Larkin
1950
One Hour in Wonderland · as Coca Cola Girl
1950
The Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) · as Christine Carroll Kimberly
1950
When Willie Comes Marching Home · as Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)
1949
Fireside Theatre (TV Series) · as Cast

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