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 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.
Acted in
Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Psycho Legacy
2010
as Self (archive footage)
Separate Lives
1995
as Dr. Ruth Goldin
24 Hour Psycho
1993
as Lila Crane (archive footage)
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
1989
as Sophie Kubacki
International Airport
1985
as Elaine Corley
Into the Night
1985
as Joan Caper
Crazy like a Fox
1984
as Georgina Burton
The Initiation
1984
as Frances Fairchild
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Elizabeth Gates
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Charmaine Calloway Thompson
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Nancy Landon
Finder of Lost Loves
1984
as Joanna Shaw
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
1984
as Kate Keller
BrainWaves
1983
as Marian Koonan
Psycho II
1983
as Lila Loomis
Travis McGee
1983
as Julie Lawless
Mazes and Monsters
1982
as Cat
Matt Houston
1982
Hotel
1982
Our Family Business
1981
as Patricia
Magnum, P.I.
1980
Roughnecks
1980
as Ida McBride
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979
as Tora
The Horror Show
1979
as (archive footage)
And I Alone Survived
1978
as Irene Elder
The Love Boat
1977
as Bess Hensinger
The Love Boat
1977
as Eve Springer
Run for the Roses
1977
as Clarissa Stewart
Fire!
1977
as Martha Wagner
How the West Was Won
1977
as Beth
State Fair
1976
as Melissa Bryant
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976
as Mrs. Horton
McNaughton's Daughter
1976
as Grace Coventry
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
1976
as Erica
Ellery Queen
1975
as Celeste Wakefield
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
1974
as Christine Rhodes
Little House on the Prairie
1974
as Ruthy Leland
The Castaway Cowboy
1974
as Henrietta MacAvoy
Movin' On
1974
The Underground Man
1974
as Eleanor Strom
Live Again, Die Again
1974
as Marcia Carmichael
Runaway!
1973
as Ellen Staffo
One Little Indian
1973
as Doris
Baffled!
1973
as Andrea Glenn
Molly and Lawless John
1972
as Molly Parker
A Great American Tragedy
1972
as Gloria Wilkes
The Streets of San Francisco
1972
Jigsaw
1972
as Lilah Beth Cummings
A Howling in the Woods
1971
as Rose Staines
Columbo
1971
as Viveca Scott
Cannon
1971
Cannon
1971
as Diana Langston
In Search of America
1971
as Jenny Olson
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
The Wild Country
1970
as Kate Tanner
Dan August
1970
as Carla
Medical Center
1969
Medical Center
1969
as Dr. Gloria Hall
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969
as Helen Wagner
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969
as Janet Devaney
Journey to the Unknown
1969
as June Wiley
It Takes All Kinds
1969
as Laura Ring
Hellfighters
1968
as Madelyn Buckman
Mission Batangas
1968
as Joan Barnes
Journey to the Unknown
1968
as June Wiley
Hawaii Five-O
1968
as Flora Whiting
The Name of the Game
1968
as Marisa Cummings
The Name of the Game
1968
as Tracy Cannon
Kona Coast
1968
as Melissa Hyde
Sergeant Ryker
1968
as Ann Ryker
Gentle Giant
1967
as Ellen Wedloe
Mannix
1967
as Jean McBride
Judd for the Defense
1967
The Spirit Is Willing
1967
as Kate Powell
Ironside
1967
Ironside
1967
as Barbara Richards
Ironside
1967
as Barbara Jones
Follow Me, Boys!
1966
as Vida Downey
One of Our Spies Is Missing
1966
as Madame Raine De Sala
ABC Stage 67
1966
as Adele
The F.B.I.
1965
as Kate Burke
I Spy
1965
as Rachel
Run for Your Life
1965
as Rachel Pike
Those Calloways
1965
as Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
The Hanged Man
1964
as Lois Seeger
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
as Madame Raine De Sala
The Unknown
1964
as Kassia Paine
A Tiger Walks
1964
as Dorothy Williams
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
as Ann Ryker
Mr. Novak
1963
as Sister Gervaise
Burke's Law
1963
as Claudia Sutton
The Fugitive
1963
as Monica Welles
The Outer Limits
1963
as Kassia Paine
Arrest and Trial
1963
as Jean Forbes
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Daphne
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Nicky Revere
The Virginian
1962
as Miss Wallace
The Virginian
1962
as Maggie Menken
Sam Benedict
1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
as Hallie Stoddard
Back Street
1961
as Liz Saxon
The Lawbreakers
1961
as Angela Walsh
The Asphalt Jungle
1961
Route 66
1960
as Ellen Barnes
My Three Sons
1960
as Ernestine Coulter
Psycho
1960
as Lila Crane
Five Branded Women
1960
as Daniza
A Touch of Larceny
1960
as Virginia Killain
The Detectives
1959
as Lucy
Startime
1959
as Jean Medwick
The Twilight Zone
1959
as Millicent Barnes
The FBI Story
1959
as Lucy Ann Hardesty
Riverboat
1959
as Jeanette Mowbray
Bonanza
1959
as Sarah Lowell
Bonanza
1959
as April Christopher
Web of Evidence
1959
as Lena Anderson
Rawhide
1959
Rawhide
1959
as Helen Walsh
Wagon Train
1957
as Sister Rita
Wagon Train
1957
as Janice Stuart
Beau James
1957
as Betty Compton
The Wrong Man
1956
as Rose Balestrero
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Jenny Breckenridge
Autumn Leaves
1956
as Virginia Hanson
23 Paces to Baker Street
1956
as Jean Lennox
The Searchers
1956
as Laurie Jorgensen
The House Without a Name
1956
Man on the Ledge
1955
as Virginia
Rookie of the Year
1955
as Ruth Dahlberg
The 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
Screen Director's Playhouse
1955
as Ruth Dahlberg
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Elsa Spann
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Jean Medwick
Gunsmoke
1955
as Dr. Sam
Wichita
1955
as Laurie McCoy
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955
as Jill Hardy
The Millionaire
1955
as Merle Roberts
Climax!
1954
as Sally Jordan
Climax!
1954
as Jan Michaels
Climax!
1954
as Janet Reese
Studio 57
1954
as The Little Girl's Mother
Pride of the Blue Grass
1954
as Linda
So Big
1953
as Girl (uncredited)
City Detective
1953
The Charge at Feather River
1953
as Jennie McKeever
General Electric Theater
1953
as Terry
General Electric Theater
1953
as Mrs. Eaton
General Electric Theater
1953
General Electric Theater
1953
as Nora Douglas
General Electric Theater
1953
as Debra Stone
Four Star Playhouse
1952
as Julie Tolin
Four Star Playhouse
1952
as Maggie
The Rose Bowl Story
1952
as Denny Burke
For Men Only
1952
as Kathy
Two Tickets to Broadway
1951
as Showgirl (uncredited)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Julie
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Sarah Larkin
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Maureen O'Reilly
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Christine Carroll Kimberly
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Jenny
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Audrey O'Connor
The Screen Writer
1950
as Young Actress (uncredited)
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
as Self
When Willie Comes Marching Home
1950
as Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)