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Vera Miles

Vera Miles

Birthday: 1929-08-23 | Place of Birth: Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1995
Separate Lives

as    Dr. Ruth Goldin

1985
International Airport

as    Elaine Corley

1983
Psycho II

as    Lila Loomis

1983
BrainWaves

as    Marian Koonan

1982
Mazes and Monsters

as    Cat

1978
And I Alone Survived

as    Irene Elder

1977
Fire!

as    Martha Wagner

1974
The Castaway Cowboy

as    Henrietta MacAvoy

1974
Live Again, Die Again

as    Marcia Carmichael

1973
One Little Indian

as    Doris

1973
Runaway!

as    Ellen Staffo

1970
The Wild Country

as    Kate Tanner

1968
Sergeant Ryker

as    Ann Ryker

1967
The Spirit Is Willing

as    Kate Powell

1966
One of Our Spies Is Missing

as    Madame Raine De Sala

1966
Follow Me, Boys!

as    Vida Downey

1964
The Unknown

as    Kassia Paine

1964
The Hanged Man

as    Lois Seeger

1962
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

as    Hallie Stoddard

1961
The Lawbreakers

as    Angela Walsh

1960
Five Branded Women

as    Daniza

1960
Psycho

as    Lila Crane

1956
23 Paces to Baker Street

as    Jean Lennox

1956
The Searchers

as    Laurie Jorgensen

1956
The Wrong Man

as    Rose Balestrero

1956
Autumn Leaves

as    Virginia Hanson

1955
Wichita

as    Laurie McCoy

1955
1953
The Charge at Feather River

as    Jennie McKeever