Cast
Vera Miles
Acting
Cast
Vera Miles
Known for
Acting
Born
1930-08-23
From
Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
Also known as Vera June Ralston, Vera June Miles, ΩΨ±Ψ§ Ω Ψ§ΫΩΨ²
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.
Psycho
as Lila Crane
The Searchers
as Laurie Jorgensen
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Hallie Stoddard
Into the Night
as Joan Caper
Psycho II
as Lila Loomis
Wichita
as Laurie McCoy
The Initiation
as Frances Fairchild
The Wrong Man
as Rose Balestrero
Travis McGee
as Julie Lawless
Cannon
as Diana Langston
Hellfighters
as Madelyn Buckman
Autumn Leaves
as Virginia Hanson
Mazes and Monsters
as Cat
Beau James
as Betty Compton
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
as Erica
The Lawbreakers
as Angela Walsh
Those Calloways
as Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
The FBI Story
as Lucy Ann Hardesty
The Charge at Feather River
as Jennie McKeever
Separate Lives
as Dr. Ruth Goldin
Sergeant Ryker
as Ann Ryker
The Castaway Cowboy
as Henrietta MacAvoy
The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
State Fair
as Melissa Bryant
BrainWaves
as Marian Koonan
The Spirit Is Willing
as Kate Powell
Web of Evidence
as Lena Anderson
One of Our Spies Is Missing
as Madame Raine De Sala
The Wild Country
as Kate Tanner
23 Paces to Baker Street
as Jean Lennox
Fire!
as Martha Wagner
The Unknown
as Kassia Paine
One Little Indian
as Doris
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
as Kate Keller
Follow Me, Boys!
as Vida Downey
So Big
as Girl (uncredited)
Mission Batangas
as Joan Barnes
The Underground Man
as Eleanor Strom
Roughnecks
as Ida McBride
When Willie Comes Marching Home
as Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)
Our Family Business
as Patricia
Gentle Giant
as Ellen Wedloe
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
as Christine Rhodes
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
as Jill Hardy
Five Branded Women
as Daniza
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
as Sophie Kubacki
Baffled!
as Andrea Glenn
Back Street
as Liz Saxon
The Hanged Man
as Lois Seeger
In Search of America
as Jenny Olson
Jigsaw
as Lilah Beth Cummings
International Airport
as Elaine Corley
A Tiger Walks
as Dorothy Williams
A Howling in the Woods
as Rose Staines
A Touch of Larceny
as Virginia Killain
And I Alone Survived
as Irene Elder
Runaway!
as Ellen Staffo
Man on the Ledge
as Virginia
A Great American Tragedy
as Gloria Wilkes
Live Again, Die Again
as Marcia Carmichael
Kona Coast
as Melissa Hyde
Two Tickets to Broadway
as Showgirl (uncredited)
Journey to the Unknown
as June Wiley
It Takes All Kinds
as Laura Ring
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
Molly and Lawless John
as Molly Parker
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
as Mrs. Horton
Pride of the Blue Grass
as Linda
For Men Only
as Kathy
Run for the Roses
as Clarissa Stewart
Recoil
as Lucy
The Rose Bowl Story
as Denny Burke
The House Without a Name
The Screen Writer
as Young Actress (uncredited)