Vera Miles
Born August 23, 1930 (Age: 95)
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Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
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 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.
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
24 Hour Psycho
1993
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as Lila Crane (archive footage)
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Age: 62
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
1989
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as Sophie Kubacki
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Age: 58
International Airport
1985
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as Elaine Corley
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Age: 54
Into the Night
1985
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as Joan Caper
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Age: 54
Psycho II
1983
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as Lila Loomis
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Age: 52
Our Family Business
1981
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as Patricia
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Age: 51
Roughnecks
1980
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as Ida McBride
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Age: 49
And I Alone Survived
1978
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as Irene Elder
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Age: 48
Run for the Roses
1977
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as Clarissa Stewart
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Age: 46
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
1974
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as Christine Rhodes
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Age: 44
The Castaway Cowboy
1974
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as Henrietta MacAvoy
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Age: 43
The Underground Man
1974
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as Eleanor Strom
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Age: 43
Live Again, Die Again
1974
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as Marcia Carmichael
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Age: 43
Runaway!
1973
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as Ellen Staffo
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Age: 43
One Little Indian
1973
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as Doris
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Age: 42
Baffled!
1973
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as Andrea Glenn
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Age: 42
Molly and Lawless John
1972
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as Molly Parker
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Age: 42
A Great American Tragedy
1972
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as Gloria Wilkes
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Age: 42
Jigsaw
1972
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as Lilah Beth Cummings
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Age: 41
Cannon
1971
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as Diana Langston
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Age: 40
Journey to the Unknown
1969
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as June Wiley
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Age: 38
It Takes All Kinds
1969
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as Laura Ring
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Age: 38
Mission Batangas
1968
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as Joan Barnes
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Age: 38
The Hanged Man
1964
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as Lois Seeger
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Age: 34
Those Calloways
1964
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as Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
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Age: 34
The Unknown
1964
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as Kassia Paine
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Age: 33
A Tiger Walks
1964
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as Dorothy Williams
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Age: 33
Recoil
1963
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as Lucy
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Age: 33
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
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as Hallie Stoddard
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Age: 31
Back Street
1961
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as Liz Saxon
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Age: 31
The Lawbreakers
1961
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as Angela Walsh
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Age: 30
Psycho
1960
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as Lila Crane
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Age: 29
Five Branded Women
1960
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as Daniza
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Age: 29
A Touch of Larceny
1960
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as Virginia Killain
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Age: 29
The FBI Story
1959
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as Lucy Ann Hardesty
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Age: 29
Web of Evidence
1959
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as Lena Anderson
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Age: 28
The Wrong Man
1956
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as Rose Balestrero
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Age: 26
Autumn Leaves
1956
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as Virginia Hanson
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Age: 25
23 Paces to Baker Street
1956
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as Jean Lennox
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Age: 25
The Searchers
1956
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as Laurie Jorgensen
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Age: 25
The House Without a Name
1956
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Age: 25
Man on the Ledge
1955
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as Virginia
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Age: 25
Wichita
1955
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as Laurie McCoy
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Age: 24
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955
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as Jill Hardy
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Age: 24
Pride of the Blue Grass
1954
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as Linda
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Age: 23
So Big
1953
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as Girl (uncredited)
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Age: 23
The Charge at Feather River
1953
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as Jennie McKeever
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Age: 22
No Image
The Screen Writer
1950
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as Young Actress (uncredited)
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Age: 20
When Willie Comes Marching Home
1950
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as Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)
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Age: 19