
Vera Miles
1 FOLLOWER • 58 CREDITS • AUG 23, 1929 • 95
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

The Love Boat

Lux Video Theatre

Rawhide

General Electric Theater

Murder, She Wrote

Climax!

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Mannix

Four Star Playhouse

Hawaii Five-O

Route 66

Ironside

Gunsmoke

My Three Sons

The F.B.I.

Cannon

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

The Steve Allen Show

The Millionaire

The Name of the Game

Wagon Train

Fantasy Island

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Ellery Queen

Alias Smith and Jones

Magnum, P.I.

The 20th Century Fox Hour

Run for Your Life

Medical Center

Columbo

Riverboat

Bonanza

Crazy like a Fox

The Dick Powell Show

Sam Benedict

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Mr. Novak

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

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

The Twilight Zone

The Fugitive

Little House on the Prairie

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Startime

Movin' On

The Underground Man

Cannon

A Touch of Larceny

The Virginian

Psycho

The Searchers

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

I Spy

Five Branded Women

Beau James

The Spirit Is Willing

The Wrong Man
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