Vera Miles
Acting
🎂 1930-08-23
Vera June Miles 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.
Cast credits(169)
Viveca Scott
1971
April Christopher
1959
Sarah Lowell
1959
Elizabeth Gates
1984
Charmaine Calloway Thompson
1984
Nancy Landon
1984
Bess Hensinger
1977
Eve Springer
1977
Joan Gibson
1980
Flora Whiting
1968
Ruthy Leland
1974
Sister Rita
1957
Janice Stuart
1957
Monica Welles
1963
Sally Jordan
1954
Jan Michaels
1954
Janet Reese
1954
Miss Wallace
1962
Maggie Menken
1962
Barbara Richards
1967
Barbara Jones
1967
Gloria Campbell
1967
Jean McBride
1967
1982
Teresa Clayborne
1982
Millie Broom
1982
Ernestine Coulter
1960
Millicent Barnes
1959
1959
Helen Walsh
1959
1971
Jenny Breckenridge
1956
Ellen Barnes
1960
Beth
1963
Kate Burke
1965
Martha Tate
1978
Maggie
1952
Julie Tolin
1952
Dr. Sam
1955
Claudia Sutton
1963
1969
Dr. Gloria Hall
1969
Marisa Cummings
1968
Tracy Cannon
1968
Daphne
1962
Nicky Revere
1962
Rachel Pike
1965
Kassia Paine
1963
1982
Merle Roberts
1955
Ann Ryker
1963
Lila Crane
1960
Lucy
1959
Virginia
1955
Self
1950
1972
Sister Gervaise
1963
Elsa Spann
1955
Jeanette Mowbray
1959
Helen Wagner
1969
Janet Devaney
1969
1971
Celeste Wakefield
1975
The Little Girl's Mother
1954
Nancy Carr
1952
Stella Calman
1961
Tora
1979
Maureen O'Reilly
1950
Christine Carroll Kimberly
1950
Jenny
1950
Audrey O'Connor
1950
Beth
1977
1967
Madame Raine De Sala
1964
Rachel
1965
Jean Forbes
1963
Georgina Burton
1984
Ruth Dahlberg
1955
Joanna Shaw
1984
1962
Adele
1966
Jean Medwick
1959
Hallie Stoddard
1962
Lucy Ann Hardesty
1959
Laurie Jorgensen
1956
1953
1974
Carla
1970
Henrietta MacAvoy
1974
June Wiley
1968
Lila Loomis
1983
1961
Rose Balestrero
1956
Christine Rhodes
1974
Cat
1982
Madelyn Buckman
1968
Joan Caper
1985
Frances Fairchild
1984
Erica
1976
Melissa Bryant
1976
Jennie McKeever
1953
Lois Seeger
1964
Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)
1950
Mrs. Horton
1976
Marian Koonan
1983
Terry
1953
Mrs. Eaton
1953
1953
Nora Douglas
1953
Debra Stone
1953
Liz Saxon
1961
Irene Elder
1978
Dorothy Williams
1964
Doris
1973
Julie
1951
Sarah Larkin
1951
1951
Ellen Staffo
1973
Girl (uncredited)
1953
Grace Coventry
1976
(archive footage)
1979
Lilah Beth Cummings
1972
Ida McBride
1980
Dr. Ruth Goldin
1995
Vida Downey
1966
Ann Ryker
1968
Kate Keller
1984
Lena Anderson
1959
Laurie McCoy
1955
Diana Langston
1971
Self (archive footage)
2010
Andrea Glenn
1973
Elaine Corley
1985
Jean Lennox
1956
Eleanor Strom
1974
Marcia Carmichael
1974
Young Actress (uncredited)
1950
Virginia Hanson
1956
Patricia
1981
Julie Lawless
1983
Virginia Killain
1960
Madame Raine De Sala
1966
Kate Tanner
1970
Betty Compton
1957
Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
1964
Rose Staines
1971
Sophie Kubacki
1989
Martha Wagner
1977
Showgirl (uncredited)
1951
June Wiley
1969
Molly Parker
1972
Virginia
1955
Clarissa Stewart
1977
Daniza
1960
Laura Ring
1969
Denny Burke
1952
Kate Powell
1967
Angela Walsh
1961
Linda
1954
Kathy
1952
Joan Barnes
1968
Jill Hardy
1955
Ellen Wedloe
1967
Kassia Paine
1964
Gloria Wilkes
1972
Melissa Hyde
1968
Jenny Olson
1971
Lila Crane (archive footage)
1993
1956