Vera Miles

Known for ActingBorn 1930-08-23 (age 95)Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Screen Writer

The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro

Our Family Business

State Fair

Gentle Giant

The Twilight Zone

Psycho

Arrest and Trial

Columbo

It Takes All Kinds

Mission Batangas

Little House on the Prairie

Pride of the Blue Grass

Studio 57

Live Again, Die Again

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Outer Limits

Murder, She Wrote

Judd, for the Defense

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The Ford Television Theatre

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys

The Searchers

Ellery Queen

A Great American Tragedy

Magnum, P.I.

Bonanza

Crazy like a Fox

City Detective

Mr. Novak

The Fugitive

Dan August

Hawaii Five-O

Fire!

Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues

Rawhide

Roughnecks

Run for Your Life

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Run for the Roses

The Streets of San Francisco

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Jigsaw

Alias Smith and Jones

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

How the West Was Won

The Name of the Game