Vera Miles
Acting
🎂 1929-08-23
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.
Cast credits(170)
Sister Rita
1957
Janice Stuart
1957
1959
Helen Walsh
1959
1971
Ruthy Leland
1974
Jenny Breckenridge
1956
1967
Joan Gibson
1980
Viveca Scott
1971
1972
Self
1950
Sarah Lowell
1959
April Christopher
1959
Daphne
1962
Nicky Revere
1962
Jean McBride
1967
Ruth Dahlberg
1955
Elizabeth Gates
1984
Charmaine Calloway Thompson
1984
Nancy Landon
1984
1969
Dr. Gloria Hall
1969
Flora Whiting
1968
Kate Burke
1965
1962
1982
Teresa Clayborne
1982
Millie Broom
1982
Claudia Sutton
1963
Millicent Barnes
1959
Georgina Burton
1984
Rachel
1965
Nancy Carr
1952
Ellen Barnes
1960
Joanna Shaw
1984
Carla
1970
Madame Raine De Sala
1964
Kassia Paine
1963
Helen Wagner
1969
Janet Devaney
1969
Martha Tate
1978
Lucy
1959
The Little Girl's Mother
1954
Bess Hensinger
1977
Eve Springer
1977
1982
Jean Forbes
1963
Sally Jordan
1954
Jan Michaels
1954
Janet Reese
1954
Beth
1963
Rachel Pike
1965
1953
Julie Tolin
1952
Maggie
1952
Monica Welles
1963
Marisa Cummings
1968
Tracy Cannon
1968
Stella Calman
1961
Sister Gervaise
1963
1974
Virginia
1955
Barbara Richards
1967
Barbara Jones
1967
Gloria Campbell
1967
June Wiley
1968
Tora
1979
Miss Wallace
1962
Maggie Menken
1962
Merle Roberts
1955
Jeanette Mowbray
1959
Ernestine Coulter
1960
Celeste Wakefield
1975
Beth
1977
Elsa Spann
1955
1961
Dr. Sam
1955
Ann Ryker
1963
Lila Crane
1960
1971
Hallie Stoddard
1962
Maureen O'Reilly
1950
Christine Carroll Kimberly
1950
Jenny
1950
Audrey O'Connor
1950
Grace Coventry
1976
Jean Medwick
1959
Adele
1966
Terry
1953
Mrs. Eaton
1953
1953
Nora Douglas
1953
Debra Stone
1953
Julie
1951
Sarah Larkin
1951
1951
Laurie Jorgensen
1956
Lila Loomis
1983
Joan Caper
1985
Henrietta MacAvoy
1974
Rose Balestrero
1956
Cat
1982
Lucy Ann Hardesty
1959
Madelyn Buckman
1968
Laurie McCoy
1955
Frances Fairchild
1984
Liz Saxon
1961
Jean Lennox
1956
Kate Powell
1967
Erica
1976
Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)
1950
Vida Downey
1966
Dr. Ruth Goldin
1995
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2015
Mrs. Horton
1976
Virginia Hanson
1956
Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
1964
Ann Ryker
1968
Doris
1973
Jennie McKeever
1953
Dorothy Williams
1964
Martha Wagner
1977
Melissa Bryant
1976
Diana Langston
1971
Girl (uncredited)
1953
Andrea Glenn
1973
Julie Lawless
1983
Irene Elder
1978
Kate Tanner
1970
Ida McBride
1980
Sophie Kubacki
1989
Rose Staines
1971
Clarissa Stewart
1977
Daniza
1960
Gloria Wilkes
1972
Showgirl (uncredited)
1951
Marian Koonan
1983
Ellen Staffo
1973
Denny Burke
1952
Lila Crane (archive footage)
1993
(archive footage)
1979
Betty Compton
1957
Melissa Hyde
1968
Madame Raine De Sala
1966
Molly Parker
1972
Elaine Corley
1985
Virginia Killain
1960
Christine Rhodes
1974
Patricia
1981
Jenny Olson
1971
Lois Seeger
1964
Angela Walsh
1961
Kathy
1952
Marcia Carmichael
1974
Virginia
1955
Kassia Paine
1964
Lilah Beth Cummings
1972
Ellen Wedloe
1967
Eleanor Strom
1974
Lena Anderson
1959
Jill Hardy
1955
Self (archive footage)
2010
Kate Keller
1984
Laura Ring
1969
Linda
1954
Joan Barnes
1968
June Wiley
1969
1956
Young Actress (uncredited)
1950