Vera Miles
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
170
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
Bonanza
Bonanza
Ironside
Ironside
Ironside
The Fugitive
Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote
The Love Boat
The Love Boat
The Virginian
The Virginian
Little House on the Prairie
Mannix
Hawaii Five-O
My Three Sons
Magnum, P.I.
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Wagon Train
Wagon Train
Hotel
Hotel
Hotel
The Twilight Zone
Climax!
Climax!
Climax!
Rawhide
Rawhide
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Four Star Playhouse
Four Star Playhouse
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Matt Houston
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Route 66
The F.B.I.
Psycho
Cannon
Burke's Law
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
The Name of the Game
The Name of the Game
Medical Center
Medical Center
Fantasy Island
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Run for Your Life
The Outer Limits
Kraft Suspense Theatre
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Gunsmoke
The Streets of San Francisco
The Millionaire
The Detectives
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Ford Television Theatre
Alias Smith and Jones
Studio 57
Arrest and Trial
Ellery Queen
Judd for the Defense
Riverboat
Dan August
Mr. Novak
Lux Video Theatre
Lux Video Theatre
Lux Video Theatre
Lux Video Theatre
Crazy like a Fox
How the West Was Won
I Spy
The Dick Powell Show
Sam Benedict
Screen Director's Playhouse
Startime
Finder of Lost Loves
ABC Stage 67
The Hanged Man
The Rose Bowl Story
City Detective
The FBI Story
Wichita
Movin' On
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Journey to the Unknown
The Charge at Feather River
Mission Batangas
Incident at a Corner
Web of Evidence
The Wrong Man
The Searchers
Run for the Roses
A Great American Tragedy
And I Alone Survived
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
The Wild Country
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
Cannon
The Asphalt Jungle
Separate Lives
Mazes and Monsters
The House Without a Name
Five Branded Women
Travis McGee
Psycho II
A Howling in the Woods
Hellfighters
Roughnecks
Fire!
The Horror Show
BrainWaves
Into the Night
Back Street
The Screen Writer
The Spirit Is Willing
Baffled!
McNaughton's Daughter
Runaway!
Kona Coast
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Sergeant Ryker
Our Family Business
So Big
The Underground Man
Jigsaw
23 Paces to Baker Street
Journey to the Unknown
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
The Castaway Cowboy
The Lawbreakers
State Fair
General Electric Theater
General Electric Theater
General Electric Theater
General Electric Theater
General Electric Theater
Beau James
One of Our Spies Is Missing
When Willie Comes Marching Home
One Little Indian
International Airport
Gentle Giant
The Initiation
24 Hour Psycho
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Molly and Lawless John
The Unknown
A Touch of Larceny
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Live Again, Die Again
Follow Me, Boys!
In Search of America
It Takes All Kinds
For Men Only
Man on the Ledge
Two Tickets to Broadway
Pride of the Blue Grass
Autumn Leaves
A Tiger Walks
Those Calloways
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
