Vera Miles
Biography
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.
Known For
Virginia
Man on the Ledge
Lila Crane
Psycho
Laurie Jorgensen
The Searchers
Lila Loomis
Psycho II
Ida McBride
Roughnecks
Joan Caper
Into the Night
Hallie Stoddard
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Rose Balestrero
The Wrong Man
Madelyn Buckman
Hellfighters
Cat
Mazes and Monsters
(archive footage)
The Horror Show
Vida Downey
Follow Me, Boys!
Kate Powell
The Spirit Is Willing
Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
Those Calloways
Virginia Hanson
Autumn Leaves
Liz Saxon
Back Street
Frances Fairchild
The Initiation
Doris
One Little Indian
Dorothy Williams
A Tiger Walks
Jean Lennox
23 Paces to Baker Street
Henrietta MacAvoy
The Castaway Cowboy
Lila Crane (archive footage)
24 Hour Psycho
Lucy Ann Hardesty
The FBI Story
Jenny Olson
In Search of America
Christine Rhodes
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
Jill Hardy
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
Martha Wagner
Fire!
Virginia Killain
A Touch of Larceny
Lois Seeger
The Hanged Man
Betty Compton
Beau James
Dr. Ruth Goldin
Separate Lives
Kate Keller
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
Daniza
Five Branded Women
Linda
Pride of the Blue Grass
Melissa Hyde
Kona Coast
Lena Anderson
Beyond This Place
Laurie McCoy
Wichita
June Wiley
Journey to the Unknown
Madame Raine De Sala
One of Our Spies Is Missing
Andrea Glenn
Baffled!
Jennie McKeever
The Charge at Feather River
Irene Elder
And I Alone Survived
Kate Tanner
The Wild Country
Gloria Wilkes
A Great American Tragedy
Kathy
For Men Only
Lilah Beth Cummings
Jigsaw
Patricia
Our Family Business
Kassia Paine
The Unknown
Showgirl (uncredited)
Two Tickets to Broadway
Ellen Wedloe
Gentle Giant
Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)
When Willie Comes Marching Home
Girl (uncredited)
So Big
Diana Langston
Cannon
Elaine Corley
International Airport
Rose Staines
A Howling in the Woods
Marian Koonan
BrainWaves
Molly Parker
Molly and Lawless John
Angela Walsh
The Lawbreakers
Sophie Kubacki
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
Denny Burke
The Rose Bowl Story
Self (archive footage)
The Psycho Legacy
Young Actress (uncredited)
The Screen Writer
Ann Ryker
Sergeant Ryker
Laura Ring
It Takes All Kinds
Clarissa Stewart
Run for the Roses
Marcia Carmichael
Live Again, Die Again
Erica
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
Eleanor Strom
The Underground Man
Mrs. Horton
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Melissa Bryant
State Fair
Joan Barnes
Mission Batangas
Ellen Staffo
Runaway!
The House Without a Name
Julie Lawless
Travis McGee
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
74
Gender
Female
Birthday
1930-08-23
Place of Birth
Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
Also Known As
Vera June Ralston