Vera Miles
75 movies · 66 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Aug 23, 1930 (age 96)
- Place of birth
- Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
- Also known as
- Vera June Ralston · Vera June Miles · ورا مایلز
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.
Profiles IMDb
Known for
Vera Miles: movies and TV shows
Acting (141)
- 1995 Separate Lives
as Dr. Ruth Goldin
- 1989 The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
as Sophie Kubacki
- 1985 International Airport
as Elaine Corley
- 1985 Into the Night
as Joan Caper
- 1984
- 1984 The Initiation
as Frances Fairchild
- 1984
- 1984
- 1984 Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
as Kate Keller
- 1983 BrainWaves
as Marian Koonan
- 1983 Psycho II
as Lila Loomis
- 1983 Travis McGee
as Julie Lawless
- 1982 Mazes and Monsters
as Cat
- 1982
- 1982
- 1981 Our Family Business
as Patricia
- 1980
- 1980 Roughnecks
as Ida McBride
- 1979
- 1979 The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
- 1978 And I Alone Survived
as Irene Elder
- 1978
- 1977
- 1977 Run for the Roses
as Clarissa Stewart
- 1977 Fire!
as Martha Wagner
- 1977
- 1976 State Fair
as Melissa Bryant
- 1976 Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
as Mrs. Horton
- 1976
- 1976 Smash-Up on Interstate 5
as Erica
- 1975
- 1974 The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
as Christine Rhodes
- 1974
- 1974
- 1974 The Castaway Cowboy
as Henrietta MacAvoy
- 1974 The Underground Man
as Eleanor Strom
- 1974 Live Again, Die Again
as Marcia Carmichael
- 1973 Runaway!
as Ellen Staffo
- 1973 One Little Indian
as Doris
- 1973 Baffled!
as Andrea Glenn
- 1972 Molly and Lawless John
as Molly Parker
- 1972 A Great American Tragedy
as Gloria Wilkes
- 1972
- 1972 Jigsaw
as Lilah Beth Cummings
- 1971 A Howling in the Woods
as Rose Staines
- 1971
- 1971
- 1971
- 1971 Cannon
as Diana Langston
- 1971 In Search of America
as Jenny Olson
- 1971
- 1970 The Wild Country
as Kate Tanner
- 1970
- 1969
- 1969
- 1969 Journey to the Unknown
as June Wiley
- 1969 It Takes All Kinds
as Laura Ring
- 1969
- 1968 Hellfighters
as Madelyn Buckman
- 1968 Mission Batangas
as Joan Barnes
- 1968
- 1968
- 1968 Kona Coast
as Melissa Hyde
- 1968 Sergeant Ryker
as Ann Ryker
- 1967 Gentle Giant
as Ellen Wedloe
- 1967
- 1967
- 1967 The Spirit Is Willing
as Kate Powell
- 1967
- 1966 Follow Me, Boys!
as Vida Downey
- 1966 One of Our Spies Is Missing
as Madame Raine De Sala
- 1966
- 1965
- 1965
- 1965
- 1964 The Hanged Man
as Lois Seeger
- 1964 Those Calloways
as Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
- 1964
- 1964 The Unknown
as Kassia Paine
- 1964 A Tiger Walks
as Dorothy Williams
- 1963 Recoil
as Lucy
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963
- 1963
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Hallie Stoddard
- 1961 Back Street
as Liz Saxon
- 1961 The Lawbreakers
as Angela Walsh
- 1961
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960 Psycho
as Lila Crane
- 1960 Five Branded Women
as Daniza
- 1960 A Touch of Larceny
as Virginia Killain
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959 The FBI Story
as Lucy Ann Hardesty
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959 Web of Evidence
as Lena Anderson
- 1959
- 1957 Panic Button
as Carolyn Cook
- 1957
- 1957 Beau James
as Betty Compton
- 1956 The Wrong Man
as Rose Balestrero
- 1956
- 1956 Autumn Leaves
as Virginia Hanson
- 1956 23 Paces to Baker Street
as Jean Lennox
- 1956 The Searchers
as Laurie Jorgensen
- 1956 The House Without a Name
as Vera
- 1955 Man on the Ledge
as Virginia
- 1955 Rookie of the Year
as Ruth Dahlberg
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955 Wichita
as Laurie McCoy
- 1955 Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
as Jill Hardy
- 1955
- 1954
- 1954
- 1954 Pride of the Blue Grass
as Linda
- 1953 So Big
as Girl (uncredited)
- 1953
- 1953 The Charge at Feather River
as Jennie McKeever
- 1953
- 1952
- 1952
- 1952 The Rose Bowl Story
as Denny Burke
- 1952 For Men Only
as Kathy
- 1951 Two Tickets to Broadway
as Showgirl (uncredited)
- 1951
- 1950 Lux Video Theatre · TV
as Maureen O'Reilly / Christine Carroll Kimberly / Jenny / Audrey O'Connor · 4 episodes
- 1950 The Screen Writer
as Young Actress (uncredited)
- 1950 When Willie Comes Marching Home
as Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)
Talk shows and appearances (5)
- 1982
- 1966 Hollywood Squares
10 episodes
- 1963 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1 episode
- 1961 The Dick Powell Show
1 episode
- 1950 The Colgate Comedy Hour
1 episode