Vera Miles
Acting
Born: Aug 23, 1930
From: Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
Credits: 30 titles
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 …
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Hour Psycho | Lila Crane (archive footage) | 1993 | 4.0 |
| Into the Night | Joan Caper | 1985 | 6.545 |
| The Initiation | Frances Fairchild | 1984 | 5.473 |
| Psycho II | Lila Loomis | 1983 | 6.509 |
| Mazes and Monsters | Cat | 1982 | 4.314 |
| Roughnecks | Ida McBride | 1980 | 7.0 |
| The Horror Show | (archive footage) | 1979 | 3.8 |
| Fire! | Martha Wagner | 1977 | 7.071 |
| The Castaway Cowboy | Henrietta MacAvoy | 1974 | 6.717 |
| The Strange and Deadly Occurrence | Christine Rhodes | 1974 | 5.813 |
| One Little Indian | Doris | 1973 | 6.3 |
| In Search of America | Jenny Olson | 1971 | 5.333 |
| Hellfighters | Madelyn Buckman | 1968 | 6.387 |
| The Spirit Is Willing | Kate Powell | 1967 | 5.478 |
| Follow Me, Boys! | Vida Downey | 1966 | 6.661 |
| Those Calloways | Lydia (Liddy) Calloway | 1964 | 6.383 |
| A Tiger Walks | Dorothy Williams | 1964 | 5.8 |
| The Hanged Man | Lois Seeger | 1964 | 5.1 |
| The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | Hallie Stoddard | 1962 | 7.821 |
| Back Street | Liz Saxon | 1961 | 5.639 |
| Psycho | Lila Crane | 1960 | 8.414 |
| A Touch of Larceny | Virginia Killain | 1960 | 5.971 |
| The FBI Story | Lucy Ann Hardesty | 1959 | 6.116 |
| Beau James | Betty Compton | 1957 | 5.4 |
| The Searchers | Laurie Jorgensen | 1956 | 7.691 |
| The Wrong Man | Rose Balestrero | 1956 | 7.146 |
| Autumn Leaves | Virginia Hanson | 1956 | 6.984 |
| 23 Paces to Baker Street | Jean Lennox | 1956 | 6.729 |
| Man on the Ledge | Virginia | 1955 | 7.0 |
| Tarzan's Hidden Jungle | Jill Hardy | 1955 | 5.364 |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1930 |
| From | Boise City, Oklahoma, … |