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