Vera Miles

Vera Miles

  • Birthday: 1929-08-23
  • Place of birth: Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
  • Also know as: Vera June Ralston

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.

Filmography

The Unknown

1964

As Kassia Paine

Molly and Lawless John

1972

As Molly Parker

Run for the Roses

1977

As Clarissa Stewart

State Fair

1976

As Melissa Bryant

Mission Batangas

1968

As Joan Barnes

Psycho II

1983

As Lila Loomis

The Wrong Man

1956

As Rose Balestrero

Follow Me, Boys!

1966

As Vida Downey

The Spirit Is Willing

1967

As Kate Powell

Those Calloways

1965

As Lydia (Liddy) Calloway

The Initiation

1984

As Frances Fairchild

One Little Indian

1973

As Doris

A Tiger Walks

1964

As Dorothy Williams

The Castaway Cowboy

1974

As Henrietta MacAvoy

The FBI Story

1959

As Lucy Ann Hardesty

23 Paces to Baker Street

1956

As Jean Lennox

In Search of America

1971

As Jenny Olson

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle

1955

As Jill Hardy

The Strange and Deadly Occurrence

1974

As Christine Rhodes

Fire!

1977

As Martha Wagner

Beau James

1957

As Betty Compton

Kona Coast

1968

As Melissa Hyde

Web of Evidence

1959

As Lena Anderson

Wichita

1955

As Laurie McCoy

A Great American Tragedy

1972

As Gloria Wilkes

The Wild Country

1970

As Kate Tanner

The Lawbreakers

1961

As Angela Walsh

The Rose Bowl Story

1952

As Denny Burke

It Takes All Kinds

1969

As Laura Ring

Jigsaw

1972

As Lilah Beth Cummings

Gentle Giant

1967

As Ellen Wedloe

Rookie of the Year

1955

As Ruth Dahlberg

24 Hour Psycho

1993

As Lila Crane (archive footage)

Journey to the Unknown

1969

As June Wiley

Psycho

1960

As Lila Crane

The Searchers

1956

As Laurie Jorgensen

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

1962

As Hallie Stoddard

Back Street

1961

As Liz Saxon

Autumn Leaves

1956

As Virginia Hanson

A Touch of Larceny

1960

As Virginia Killain

The Hanged Man

1964

As Lois Seeger

Separate Lives

1995

As Dr. Ruth Goldin

Five Branded Women

1960

As Daniza

And I Alone Survived

1978

As Irene Elder

BrainWaves

1983

As Marian Koonan

Hellfighters

1968

As Madelyn Buckman

The Charge at Feather River

1953

As Jennie McKeever

Baffled!

1972

As Andrea Glenn

For Men Only

1952

As Kathy

A Howling in the Woods

1971

As Rose Staines

The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro

1989

As Sophie Kubacki

Sergeant Ryker

1968

As Ann Ryker

Our Family Business

1981

As Patricia

Man on the Ledge

1955

As Virginia

One of Our Spies Is Missing

1966

As Madame Raine De Sala

The Screen Writer

1950

As Young Actress (uncredited)

Roughnecks

1980

As Ida McBride

Psychos

2014

As Lila Crane

International Airport

1985

As Elaine Corley

Live Again, Die Again

1974

As Marcia Carmichael

Cannon

1971

As Diana Langston

Runaway!

1973

As Ellen Staffo

Travis McGee

1983

As Julie Lawless

Mazes and Monsters

1982

As Cat

The Underground Man

1974

As Eleanor Strom

When Willie Comes Marching Home

1950

As Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)

So Big

1953

As Girl (uncredited)

Into the Night

1985

As Joan Caper

Two Tickets to Broadway

1951

As Showgirl (uncredited)

The Psycho Legacy

2010

As Self (archive footage)

The Horror Show

1979

As (archive footage)

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