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Vera Miles

Vera Miles

Actor · b. 1930 · 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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  • Movie8.4

    Psycho

    1960 · 11K votes

  • Movie7.7

    The Searchers

    1956 · 1.6K votes

  • Movie7.8
  • Movie6.5

    Psycho II

    1983 · 764 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Into the Night

    1985 · 341 votes

  • Movie7.1

    The Wrong Man

    1956 · 628 votes

  • Movie4.3

    Mazes and Monsters

    1982 · 107 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Those Calloways

    1964 · 32 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Hellfighters

    1968 · 93 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The FBI Story

    1959 · 45 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Jigsaw

    1972 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Follow Me, Boys!

    1966 · 34 votes

  • Movie5.9
  • Movie5.6

    Back Street

    1961 · 18 votes

  • Movie6.0

    A Touch of Larceny

    1960 · 17 votes

  • Movie6.7

    23 Paces to Baker Street

    1956 · 87 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Castaway Cowboy

    1974 · 31 votes

  • Movie5.8

    A Tiger Walks

    1964 · 16 votes

  • Movie5.5

    The Spirit Is Willing

    1967 · 23 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Wichita

    1955 · 60 votes

  • Movie6.3

    One Little Indian

    1973 · 26 votes

  • Movie5.5
  • Movie4.6

    Two Tickets to Broadway

    1951 · 12 votes

  • Movie6.0

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  • TV8.1

    Columbo

    1971 · 857 votes

  • TV6.3

    The Love Boat

    1977 · 199 votes

  • TV7.5

    Murder, She Wrote

    1984 · 471 votes

  • TV7.3

    Magnum, P.I.

    1980 · 460 votes

  • TV8.0
  • TV7.5

    Bonanza

    1959 · 500 votes

  • TV6.8

    Ironside

    1967 · 71 votes

  • TV7.3

    The Fugitive

    1963 · 63 votes

  • TV6.8

    Mannix

    1967 · 56 votes

  • TV7.9
  • TV6.6

    Wagon Train

    1957 · 31 votes

  • TV7.2

    Hawaii Five-O

    1969 · 164 votes

  • TV8.5

    The Twilight Zone

    1959 · 1.1K votes

  • TV7.8

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    1955 · 265 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Name of the Game

    1968 · 13 votes

  • TV5.9
  • TV6.7

    Cannon

    1971 · 41 votes

  • TV6.8

    Four Star Playhouse

    1952 · 11 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Virginian

    1962 · 35 votes

  • TV7.1

    Run for Your Life

    1965 · 7 votes

  • TV6.8

    Hotel

    1982 · 26 votes

  • TV5.6

    The F.B.I.

    1965 · 25 votes

  • TV6.6

    My Three Sons

    1960 · 41 votes

  • TV3.8

    Climax!

    1954 · 12 votes