8.4
8.4
Psycho
1960
as Lila Crane
Vera Miles
Also known as: Vera June Ralston
Acting
Born:August 23, 1930(age 96)
Birthplace:Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
Nationality:United States
Education:Wichita North High School
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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.
Filmography (73 movies)
8.0
8.0
Live Again, Die Again
1974
as Marcia Carmichael
7.8
7.8
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
as Hallie Stoddard
7.7
7.7
The Searchers
1956
as Laurie Jorgensen
7.1
7.1
The Wrong Man
1956
as Rose Balestrero
7.0
7.0
Autumn Leaves
1956
as Virginia Hanson
6.9
6.9
Fire!
1977
as Martha Wagner
6.8
6.8
When Willie Comes Marching Home
1950
as Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)
6.7
6.7
A Great American Tragedy
1972
as Gloria Wilkes
6.7
6.7
23 Paces to Baker Street
1956
as Jean Lennox
6.6
6.6
The Castaway Cowboy
1974
as Henrietta MacAvoy
6.6
6.6
Follow Me, Boys!
1966
as Vida Downey
6.5
6.5
Into the Night
1985
as Joan Caper
6.5
6.5
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
1984
as Kate Keller
6.5
6.5
Psycho II
1983
as Lila Loomis
6.4
6.4
Hellfighters
1968
as Madelyn Buckman
6.4
6.4
Wichita
1955
as Laurie McCoy
6.3
6.3
Those Calloways
1964
as Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
6.3
6.3
One Little Indian
1973
as Doris
6.0
6.0
The FBI Story
1959
as Lucy Ann Hardesty
6.0
6.0
Five Branded Women
1960
as Daniza
6.0
6.0
Roughnecks
1980
as Ida McBride
6.0
6.0
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976
as Mrs. Horton
6.0
6.0
Sergeant Ryker
1968
as Ann Ryker
6.0
6.0
The Unknown
1964
as Kassia Paine
6.0
6.0
The Wild Country
1970
as Kate Tanner
5.9
5.9
A Touch of Larceny
1960
as Virginia Killain
5.7
5.7
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
1974
as Christine Rhodes
5.7
5.7
And I Alone Survived
1978
as Irene Elder
5.7
5.7
A Tiger Walks
1964
as Dorothy Williams
5.6
5.6
For Men Only
1952
as Kathy
5.6
5.6
The Charge at Feather River
1953
as Jennie McKeever
5.5
5.5
Back Street
1961
as Liz Saxon
5.5
5.5
The Lawbreakers
1961
as Angela Walsh
5.4
5.4
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
1976
as Erica
5.4
5.4
The Spirit Is Willing
1967
as Kate Powell
5.4
5.4
The Initiation
1984
as Frances Fairchild
5.3
5.3
One of Our Spies Is Missing
1966
as Madame Raine De Sala
5.3
5.3
Runaway!
1973
as Ellen Staffo
5.3
5.3
So Big
1953
as Girl (uncredited)
5.0
5.0
The Underground Man
1974
as Eleanor Strom
5.0
5.0
International Airport
1985
as Elaine Corley
5.0
5.0
Baffled!
1973
as Andrea Glenn
4.9
4.9
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955
as Jill Hardy
4.9
4.9
A Howling in the Woods
1971
as Rose Staines
4.6
4.6
The Hanged Man
1964
as Lois Seeger
4.5
4.5
Travis McGee
1983
as Julie Lawless
4.5
4.5
Beau James
1957
as Betty Compton
4.4
4.4
Separate Lives
1995
as Dr. Ruth Goldin
4.2
4.2
Mazes and Monsters
1982
as Cat
4.1
4.1
Two Tickets to Broadway
1951
as Showgirl (uncredited)
4.0
4.0
24 Hour Psycho
1993
as Lila Crane (archive footage)
4.0
4.0
Web of Evidence
1959
as Lena Anderson
3.9
3.9
BrainWaves
1983
as Marian Koonan
3.0
3.0
The Rose Bowl Story
1952
as Denny Burke
3.0
3.0
In Search of America
1971
as Jenny Olson
2.9
2.9
Kona Coast
1968
as Melissa Hyde
2.8
2.8
Molly and Lawless John
1972
as Molly Parker
2.7
2.7
Cannon
1971
as Diana Langston
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
1989
as Sophie Kubacki
The House Without a Name
1956
Gentle Giant
1967
as Ellen Wedloe
The Screen Writer
1950
as Young Actress (uncredited)
It Takes All Kinds
1969
as Laura Ring
Run for the Roses
1977
as Clarissa Stewart
Mission Batangas
1968
as Joan Barnes
State Fair
1976
as Melissa Bryant
Jigsaw
1972
as Lilah Beth Cummings
Our Family Business
1981
as Patricia
Man on the Ledge
1955
as Virginia
Journey to the Unknown
1969
as June Wiley
Incident at a Corner
1960
as Jean Medwick
Pride of the Blue Grass
1954
as Linda
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