Vera Miles
Acting
Awards
Won 1 star on Hollywood Walk of Fame Award
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame 1 won
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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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Filmography
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Acting
54 credits
Columbo
The Fugitive
The Love Boat
Little House on the Prairie
Bonanza
Murder, She Wrote
Ironside
Magnum, P.I.
Hawaii Five-O
Wagon Train
Mannix
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Twilight Zone
The Virginian
Fantasy Island
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
My Three Sons
Hotel
Rawhide
Cannon
Climax!
Psycho
Burke's Law
Four Star Playhouse
Gunsmoke
Route 66
The F.B.I.
Medical Center
The Outer Limits
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Run for Your Life
The Colgate Comedy Hour
The Name of the Game
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Kraft Suspense Theatre
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Ford Television Theatre
The Millionaire
Ellery Queen
The Detectives
Crazy like a Fox
The 20th Century Fox Hour
The Searchers
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Finder of Lost Loves
I Spy
Arrest and Trial
Mr. Novak
How the West Was Won
Startime
Studio 57
Riverboat
Other credits
6 credits
Matt Houston
The Streets of San Francisco
Alias Smith and Jones
Judd, for the Defense
City Detective
Sam Benedict
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