Vera Miles
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
173
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
The Fugitive
Bonanza
Bonanza
Magnum, P.I.
The Twilight Zone
The Love Boat
The Love Boat
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Virginian
The Virginian
Hawaii Five-O
Little House on the Prairie
Ironside
Ironside
Ironside
Mannix
Wagon Train
Wagon Train
The F.B.I.
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Medical Center
Medical Center
Rawhide
Rawhide
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Climax!
Climax!
Climax!
Cannon
Cannon
Run for Your Life
Hotel
Hotel
Hotel
Gunsmoke
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Psycho
The Outer Limits
Fantasy Island
Four Star Playhouse
Four Star Playhouse
Crazy like a Fox
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Route 66
Burke's Law
My Three Sons
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
BrainWaves
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Wichita
The Ford Television Theatre
The Name of the Game
The Name of the Game
Matt Houston
Arrest and Trial
Alias Smith and Jones
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Streets of San Francisco
The Searchers
Ellery Queen
The Detectives
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Hellfighters
Runaway!
The Millionaire
Back Street
Gentle Giant
Studio 57
Judd for the Defense
So Big
Screen Director's Playhouse
Dan August
How the West Was Won
The Unknown
Beau James
A Touch of Larceny
The Screen Writer
Baffled!
Riverboat
Mr. Novak
Finder of Lost Loves
International Airport
Movin' On
City Detective
I Spy
Sam Benedict
Lux Video Theatre
Lux Video Theatre
Lux Video Theatre
Lux Video Theatre
24 Hour Psycho
Our Family Business
Journey to the Unknown
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Dick Powell Show
Startime
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
ABC Stage 67
Sergeant Ryker
Five Branded Women
Jigsaw
It Takes All Kinds
One Little Indian
The Wild Country
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
Into the Night
The Asphalt Jungle
Man on the Ledge
The Wrong Man
The Lawbreakers
Psycho II
Follow Me, Boys!
The Horror Show
McNaughton's Daughter
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
For Men Only
General Electric Theater
General Electric Theater
General Electric Theater
General Electric Theater
General Electric Theater
The Initiation
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
23 Paces to Baker Street
Mazes and Monsters
The Charge at Feather River
Fire!
The FBI Story
The Spirit Is Willing
Incident at a Corner
Those Calloways
Autumn Leaves
The Castaway Cowboy
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
A Tiger Walks
And I Alone Survived
When Willie Comes Marching Home
The Hanged Man
Separate Lives
The Rose Bowl Story
Molly and Lawless John
A Howling in the Woods
Two Tickets to Broadway
One of Our Spies Is Missing
A Great American Tragedy
Cannon
Journey to the Unknown
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
State Fair
Kona Coast
Web of Evidence
Live Again, Die Again
Roughnecks
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
The Underground Man
Run for the Roses
The House Without a Name
Travis McGee
Mission Batangas
Recoil
Pride of the Blue Grass
In Search of America
