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Vera Miles

Film Actress / Television Actress / Actress | * 08/23/1929 (94) | Boise City, Oklahoma (United States of America (USA))
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Vera June Miles (née Ralston; born August 23, 1929) is an American retired actress, best known for roles in the John Ford directed, John Wayne starring Westerns The Searchers (1956) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) as well as for playing Lila Crane in the Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho, later reprising the role in its sequel, Psycho II. Other films in which she appeared include Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955), The Searchers (1956), The Wrong Man (1956), A Touch of Larceny (1959), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), ()
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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.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Mystery | Crime

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Movies with Vera Miles as Actress(71)

as Self (archive footage)2010 The Psycho Legacy
as Dr. Ruth Goldin1995 Separate Lives
as Elaine Corley1985 International Airport
as Joan Caper1985 Into the Night
as Frances Fairchild1984 The Initiation
as Lila Crane Loomis1983 Psycho II
as Marian Koonan1983 BrainWaves
as Julie Lawless1983 Travis McGee
as Patricia1981 Our Family Business
as Ida McBride1980 Roughnecks
as (archive footage)1979 The Horror Show
as Irene Elder1978 And I Alone Survived
as Clarissa Stewart1977 Run for the Roses
as Martha Wagner1977 Fire!
as Melissa Bryant1976 State Fair
as Henrietta MacAvoy1974 The Castaway Cowboy
as Eleanor Strom1974 The Underground Man
as Marcia Carmichael1974 Live Again, Die Again
as Christine Rhodes1974 The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
as Doris1973 One Little Indian
as Ellen Staffo1973 Runaway!
as Molly Parker1972 Molly and Lawless John
as Gloria Wilkes1972 A Great American Tragedy
as Lilah Beth Cummings1972 Jigsaw
as Andrea Glenn1972 Baffled!
as Jenny Olson1971 In Search of America
as Diana Langston1971 Cannon
as Rose Staines1971 A Howling in the Woods
as Kate Tanner1970 The Wild Country
as Laura Ring1969 It Takes All Kinds
as Madelyn Buckman1968 Hellfighters
as Ann Ryker1968 Sergeant Ryker
as Melissa Hyde1968 Kona Coast
as Joan Barnes1968 Mission Batangas
as Ellen Wedloe1967 Gentle Giant
as Kate Powell1967 The Spirit Is Willing
as Vida Downey1966 Follow Me, Boys!
as Madame Raine De Sala1966 One of Our Spies Is Missing
as Lydia (Liddy) Calloway1965 Those Calloways
as Lois Seeger1964 The Hanged Man
as Kassia Paine1964 The Unknown
as Dorothy Williams1964 A Tiger Walks
as Hallie Stoddard1962 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Liz Saxon1961 Back Street
as Angela Walsh1961 The Lawbreakers
as Virginia Killain1960 A Touch of Larceny
as Daniza1960 Five Branded Women
as Lila Crane1960 Psycho
as Lena Anderson1959 Web of Evidence
as Lucy Ann Hardesty1959 The FBI Story
as Betty Compton1957 Beau James
as Jean Lennox1956 23 Paces to Baker Street
as Laurie Jorgensen1956 The Searchers
as Virginia Hanson1956 Autumn Leaves
as Rose Balestrero1956 The Wrong Man
as Laurie McCoy1955 Wichita
as Virginia1955 Man on the Ledge
as Jill Hardy1955 Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
as Girl (uncredited)1953 So Big
as Jennie McKeever1953 The Charge at Feather River
as Kathy1952 For Men Only
as Denny Burke1952 The Rose Bowl Story
as Showgirl (uncredited)1951 Two Tickets to Broadway
as Young Actress (uncredited)1950 The Screen Writer
as Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)1950 When Willie Comes Marching Home

TV Shows/Series with Vera Miles as Actress(78)

as Elizabeth Gates1984 Murder, She Wrote
as Charmaine Calloway Thompson1984 Murder, She Wrote
as Georgina Burton1984 Crazy like a Fox
as Joanna Shaw1984 Finder of Lost Loves
1982 Hotel
as Bess Hensinger1977 The Love Boat
as Ruthy Leland1974 Little House on the Prairie
as Viveca Scott1971 Columbo
1971 Cannon
as Helen Wagner1969 Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Janet Devaney1969 Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Marisa Cummings1968 The Name of the Game
as Tracy Cannon1968 The Name of the Game
as Flora Whiting1968 Hawaii Five-O
as June Wiley1968 Journey to the Unknown
as Jean McBride1967 Mannix
as Adele1966 ABC Stage 67
as Kate Burke1965 The F.B.I.
as Rachel1965 I Spy
as Rachel Pike1965 Run for Your Life
as Madame Raine De Sala1964 The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Claudia Sutton1963 Burke's Law
as Sister Gervaise1963 Mr. Novak
as Ann Ryker1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre
as Monica Welles1963 The Fugitive
as Kassia Paine1963 The Outer Limits
as Nicky Revere1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Miss Wallace1962 The Virginian
as Maggie Menken1962 The Virginian
as Stella Calman1961 The Dick Powell Show
as Ernestine Coulter1960 My Three Sons
1959 Rawhide
as Jeanette Mowbray1959 Riverboat
as April Christopher1959 Bonanza
as Sarah Lowell1959 Bonanza
as Millicent Barnes1959 The Twilight Zone
as Jenny Breckenridge1956 Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Elsa Spann1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Jean Medwick1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Merle Roberts1955 The Millionaire
as Dr. Sam1955 Gunsmoke
as Sally Jordan1954 Climax!
as Jan Michaels1954 Climax!
as Janet Reese1954 Climax!
as Terry1953 GE Theater
as Mrs. Eaton1953 GE Theater
as Nora Douglas1953 GE Theater
as Debra Stone1953 GE Theater
as Maggie1952 Four Star Playhouse
as Julie Tolin1952 Four Star Playhouse
as Sarah Larkin1951 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Maureen O'Reilly1950 Lux Video Theatre
as Audrey O'Connor1950 Lux Video Theatre
as Christine Carroll Kimberly1950 Lux Video Theatre
as Jenny1950 Lux Video Theatre

Full Name: Vera Miles
Born: Friday, 08/23 1929 (August) in Boise City, Oklahoma (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 94 years + 219 days)
Zodiac sign: Virgo (Chinese zodiac sign: Snake)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Wichita North High School
Employer: Warner Bros.
Spouses (current/former): Gordon Scott, Keith Larsen
Other names for Vera Miles (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Vera June Ralston"
"Vera June Miles"
Vera Miles frequently works together with these people:
Claude Akins (55x, Actor)
Harry Townes (50x, Actor)
Ida Lupino (45x, Actress)
John Anderson (44x, Actor)
John Dehner (42x, Actor)
Beverly Garland (42x, Actress)
Royal Dano (41x, Actor)
Dabbs Greer (40x, Actor)
Virginia Gregg (40x, Actress)
Harry Lauter (40x, Actor)
David Niven (39x, Actor)
Alfred Hitchcock (7x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:1190, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 03/27/2024