1930-08-23 Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
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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Separate Lives | Dr. Ruth Goldin | 1995-09-08 |
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24 Hour Psycho | Lila Crane (archive footage) | 1993-01-01 |
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The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro | Sophie Kubacki | 1989-02-13 |
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Into the Night | Joan Caper | 1985-02-22 |
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International Airport | Elaine Corley | 1985-05-25 |
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The Initiation | Frances Fairchild | 1984-12-07 |
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Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues | Kate Keller | 1984-04-23 |
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BrainWaves | Marian Koonan | 1983-08-05 |
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Psycho II | Lila Loomis | 1983-06-03 |
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Travis McGee | Julie Lawless | 1983-05-18 |
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Mazes and Monsters | Cat | 1982-12-27 |
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Our Family Business | Patricia | 1981-09-20 |
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Roughnecks | Ida McBride | 1980-07-15 |
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The Horror Show | (archive footage) | 1979-02-06 |
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And I Alone Survived | Irene Elder | 1978-11-27 |
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Run for the Roses | Clarissa Stewart | 1977-06-01 |
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Fire! | Martha Wagner | 1977-05-08 |
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Smash-Up on Interstate 5 | Erica | 1976-02-02 |
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Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys | Mrs. Horton | 1976-04-22 |
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State Fair | Melissa Bryant | 1976-05-14 |
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Live Again, Die Again | Marcia Carmichael | 1974-02-16 |
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The Strange and Deadly Occurrence | Christine Rhodes | 1974-09-24 |
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The Underground Man | Eleanor Strom | 1974-05-06 |
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The Castaway Cowboy | Henrietta MacAvoy | 1974-08-01 |
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Runaway! | Ellen Staffo | 1973-09-29 |
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Baffled! | Andrea Glenn | 1973-04-11 |
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One Little Indian | Doris | 1973-06-20 |
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Jigsaw | Lilah Beth Cummings | 1972-03-26 |
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A Great American Tragedy | Gloria Wilkes | 1972-10-18 |
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Molly and Lawless John | Molly Parker | 1972-12-01 |
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In Search of America | Jenny Olson | 1971-03-23 |
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A Howling in the Woods | Rose Staines | 1971-11-05 |
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Cannon | Diana Langston | 1971-03-26 |
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The Wild Country | Kate Tanner | 1970-12-16 |
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It Takes All Kinds | Laura Ring | 1969-06-12 |
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Journey to the Unknown | June Wiley | 1969-06-15 |
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Mission Batangas | Joan Barnes | 1968-11-15 |
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Sergeant Ryker | Ann Ryker | 1968-02-01 |
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Kona Coast | Melissa Hyde | 1968-05-01 |
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Hellfighters | Madelyn Buckman | 1968-11-27 |
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Gentle Giant | Ellen Wedloe | 1967-10-25 |
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The Spirit Is Willing | Kate Powell | 1967-07-07 |
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Follow Me, Boys! | Vida Downey | 1966-12-01 |
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One of Our Spies Is Missing | Madame Raine De Sala | 1966-12-01 |
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The Unknown | Kassia Paine | 1964-05-04 |
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A Tiger Walks | Dorothy Williams | 1964-04-12 |
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The Hanged Man | Lois Seeger | 1964-11-18 |
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Those Calloways | Lydia (Liddy) Calloway | 1964-11-10 |
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance | Hallie Stoddard | 1962-04-13 |
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Back Street | Liz Saxon | 1961-10-11 |
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The Lawbreakers | Angela Walsh | 1961-08-15 |
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A Touch of Larceny | Virginia Killain | 1960-02-04 |
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Five Branded Women | Daniza | 1960-03-15 |
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Psycho | Lila Crane | 1960-06-22 |
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Beyond This Place | Lena Anderson | 1959-04-28 |
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The FBI Story | Lucy Ann Hardesty | 1959-10-01 |
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Beau James | Betty Compton | 1957-06-07 |
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The Searchers | Laurie Jorgensen | 1956-05-16 |
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23 Paces to Baker Street | Jean Lennox | 1956-05-18 |
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The Wrong Man | Rose Balestrero | 1956-12-22 |
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The House Without a Name | 1956-01-01 | |
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Autumn Leaves | Virginia Hanson | 1956-08-01 |
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Wichita | Laurie McCoy | 1955-07-03 |
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Tarzan's Hidden Jungle | Jill Hardy | 1955-02-16 |
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Man on the Ledge | Virginia | 1955-12-28 |
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Pride of the Blue Grass | Linda | 1954-04-04 |
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So Big | Girl (uncredited) | 1953-10-31 |
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The Charge at Feather River | Jennie McKeever | 1953-07-11 |
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The Rose Bowl Story | Denny Burke | 1952-08-24 |
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For Men Only | Kathy | 1952-01-11 |
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Two Tickets to Broadway | Showgirl (uncredited) | 1951-11-20 |
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When Willie Comes Marching Home | Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited) | 1950-02-17 |
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The Screen Writer | Young Actress (uncredited) | 1950-09-13 |
