Vera Miles
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
172
Gender
Female
Birthday
1930-08-23 (95 years old)
Place of Birth
Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
Vera Miles
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
Columbo
Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote
Mannix
Bonanza
Bonanza
Little House on the Prairie
Magnum, P.I.
The Love Boat
The Love Boat
Ironside
Ironside
Ironside
The Fugitive
Wagon Train
Wagon Train
Four Star Playhouse
Four Star Playhouse
The Twilight Zone
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Hotel
Hotel
Hotel
Hawaii Five-O
The Virginian
The Virginian
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
My Three Sons
Cannon
Cannon
Gunsmoke
Medical Center
Medical Center
Rawhide
Rawhide
Psycho
Burke's Law
Climax!
Climax!
Climax!
Fantasy Island
The Name of the Game
The Name of the Game
The Outer Limits
Route 66
Matt Houston
The F.B.I.
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Streets of San Francisco
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alias Smith and Jones
Run for Your Life
How the West Was Won
Kraft Suspense Theatre
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
Studio 57
Mr. Novak
The Detectives
Ellery Queen
The 20th Century Fox Hour
I Spy
The Millionaire
The Ford Television Theatre
Sam Benedict
Arrest and Trial
Crazy like a Fox
Lux Video Theatre
Lux Video Theatre
Lux Video Theatre
Lux Video Theatre
Judd for the Defense
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
So Big
Mission Batangas
Baffled!
BrainWaves
Riverboat
Movin' On
Runaway!
Screen Director's Playhouse
Back Street
Dan August
State Fair
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Beau James
The Lawbreakers
Gentle Giant
Separate Lives
The Dick Powell Show
The Searchers
Wichita
The Unknown
International Airport
Finder of Lost Loves
Sergeant Ryker
The Charge at Feather River
ABC Stage 67
Jigsaw
Hellfighters
Startime
City Detective
The Wrong Man
Web of Evidence
Journey to the Unknown
The Rose Bowl Story
Psycho II
The Wild Country
Mazes and Monsters
When Willie Comes Marching Home
Five Branded Women
Molly and Lawless John
The FBI Story
The Underground Man
The Hanged Man
Into the Night
The Asphalt Jungle
Live Again, Die Again
Travis McGee
The Castaway Cowboy
23 Paces to Baker Street
A Great American Tragedy
One of Our Spies Is Missing
A Tiger Walks
One Little Indian
The Spirit Is Willing
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Journey to the Unknown
Roughnecks
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
Incident at a Corner
The House Without a Name
Run for the Roses
And I Alone Survived
It Takes All Kinds
Two Tickets to Broadway
A Touch of Larceny
A Howling in the Woods
McNaughton's Daughter
The Horror Show
The Screen Writer
Our Family Business
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
General Electric Theater
General Electric Theater
General Electric Theater
General Electric Theater
General Electric Theater
The Initiation
24 Hour Psycho
Those Calloways
Autumn Leaves
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Man on the Ledge
Follow Me, Boys!
For Men Only
Fire!
Cannon
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
Kona Coast
In Search of America
Pride of the Blue Grass
