Vera Miles
Acting
- Born:
- 1930-08-23
- Place of birth:
- Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
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
Filmography
Separate Lives
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
International Airport
Into the Night
Crazy like a Fox
The Initiation
Murder, She Wrote
Finder of Lost Loves
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
BrainWaves
Psycho II
Travis McGee
Mazes and Monsters
Matt Houston
Hotel
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
Our Family Business
Magnum, P.I.
Roughnecks
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
The Horror Show
And I Alone Survived
Fantasy Island
The Love Boat
Run for the Roses
Fire!
How the West Was Won
State Fair
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
McNaughton's Daughter
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
Ellery Queen
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
Movin' On
Little House on the Prairie
The Castaway Cowboy
The Underground Man
Live Again, Die Again
Runaway!
One Little Indian
Baffled!
Molly and Lawless John
A Great American Tragedy
The Streets of San Francisco
Jigsaw
A Howling in the Woods
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Columbo
Cannon
Cannon
In Search of America
Alias Smith and Jones
The Wild Country
Dan August
Medical Center
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Journey to the Unknown
It Takes All Kinds
Hawaii Five-O
Hellfighters
Mission Batangas
Journey to the Unknown
The Name of the Game
Kona Coast
Sergeant Ryker
Gentle Giant
Mannix
Judd, for the Defense
The Spirit Is Willing
Ironside
Follow Me, Boys!
One of Our Spies Is Missing
Hollywood Squares
ABC Stage 67
The F.B.I.
I Spy
Run for Your Life
The Hanged Man
Those Calloways
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Unknown
A Tiger Walks
Recoil
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Mr. Novak
Burke's Law
The Fugitive
The Outer Limits
Arrest and Trial
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Virginian
Sam Benedict
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Back Street
The Dick Powell Show
The Lawbreakers
The Asphalt Jungle
Route 66
My Three Sons
Psycho
Five Branded Women
A Touch of Larceny
The Detectives
Startime
The Twilight Zone
The FBI Story
Riverboat
Bonanza
Web of Evidence
Rawhide
Panic Button
Wagon Train
Beau James
The Wrong Man
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Autumn Leaves
23 Paces to Baker Street
The Searchers
The House Without a Name
Man on the Ledge
Rookie of the Year
Screen Director's Playhouse
The 20th Century Fox Hour
Revenge
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Gunsmoke
Wichita
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
The Millionaire
Climax!
Studio 57
Pride of the Blue Grass
So Big
City Detective
The Charge at Feather River
General Electric Theater
The Ford Television Theatre
Four Star Playhouse
The Rose Bowl Story
For Men Only
Two Tickets to Broadway
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Lux Video Theatre
The Screen Writer
The Colgate Comedy Hour
When Willie Comes Marching Home