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