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Vera Miles

Vera Miles

Actor · Born 1930-08-23 · Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

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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…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Psycho (1960) — Lila Crane
  2. The Searchers (1956) — Laurie Jorgensen
  3. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) — Hallie Stoddard
  4. The Twilight Zone (1959) — Millicent Barnes
  5. Little House on the Prairie (1974) — Ruthy Leland
  6. Columbo (1971) — Viveca Scott
  7. Psycho II (1983) — Lila Loomis
  8. The Wrong Man (1956) — Rose Balestrero
  9. Bonanza (1959) — April Christopher
  10. Murder, She Wrote (1984) — Elizabeth Gates
  11. Magnum, P.I. (1980) — Joan Gibson
  12. Into the Night (1985) — Joan Caper
  13. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) — Elsa Spann
  14. The Love Boat (1977) — Bess Hensinger
  15. The Outer Limits (1963) — Kassia Paine
  16. Hawaii Five-O (1968) — Flora Whiting
  17. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979) — Tora
  18. Fantasy Island (1978) — Martha Tate
  19. The Initiation (1984) — Frances Fairchild
  20. Gunsmoke (1955) — Dr. Sam
  21. Mazes and Monsters (1982) — Cat
  22. The Streets of San Francisco (1972)
  23. Hellfighters (1968) — Madelyn Buckman
  24. 23 Paces to Baker Street (1956) — Jean Lennox
  25. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) — Daphne
  26. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) — Madame Raine De Sala
  27. Ironside (1967) — Barbara Richards
  28. Autumn Leaves (1956) — Virginia Hanson
  29. The Fugitive (1963) — Monica Welles
  30. Wichita (1955) — Laurie McCoy
  31. Mannix (1967) — Jean McBride
  32. Rawhide (1959)
  33. The FBI Story (1959) — Lucy Ann Hardesty
  34. Ellery Queen (1975) — Celeste Wakefield
  35. Cannon (1971)
  36. My Three Sons (1960) — Ernestine Coulter
  37. The Virginian (1962) — Miss Wallace
  38. How the West Was Won (1977) — Beth
  39. Separate Lives (1995) — Dr. Ruth Goldin
  40. Alias Smith and Jones (1971)