Acting · Boise City, Oklahoma, USA · Born August 23, 1930
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.
MovieSeparate Lives
1995
as Dr. Ruth Goldin
MovieThe Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
1989
as Sophie Kubacki
MovieInternational Airport
1985
as Elaine Corley
MovieInto the Night
1985
as Joan Caper
TVCrazy like a Fox
1984
as Georgina Burton
MovieThe Initiation
1984
as Frances Fairchild
TVMurder, She Wrote
1984
as Elizabeth Gates
TVFinder of Lost Loves
1984
as Joanna Shaw
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
1984
as Kate Keller
MovieBrainWaves
1983
as Marian Koonan
MoviePsycho II
1983
as Lila Loomis
MovieTravis McGee
1983
as Julie Lawless
MovieMazes and Monsters
1982
as Cat
TVMatt Houston
1982
TVHotel
1982
MovieNatalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982
MovieOur Family Business
1981
as Patricia
TVMagnum, P.I.
1980
as Joan Gibson
MovieRoughnecks
1980
as Ida McBride
TVBuck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979
as Tora
MovieThe Horror Show
1979
as (archive footage)
MovieAnd I Alone Survived
1978
as Irene Elder
TVFantasy Island
1978
as Martha Tate
TVThe Love Boat
1977
as Bess Hensinger
MovieRun for the Roses
1977
as Clarissa Stewart
MovieFire!
1977
as Martha Wagner
TVHow the West Was Won
1977
as Beth
State Fair
1976
as Melissa Bryant
MovieJudge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976
as Mrs. Horton
McNaughton's Daughter
1976
as Grace Coventry
MovieSmash-Up on Interstate 5
1976
as Erica
TVEllery Queen
1975
as Celeste Wakefield
MovieThe Strange and Deadly Occurrence
1974
as Christine Rhodes
TVMovin' On
1974
TVLittle House on the Prairie
1974
as Ruthy Leland
MovieThe Castaway Cowboy
1974
as Henrietta MacAvoy
MovieThe Underground Man
1974
as Eleanor Strom
MovieLive Again, Die Again
1974
as Marcia Carmichael
MovieRunaway!
1973
as Ellen Staffo
MovieOne Little Indian
1973
as Doris
MovieBaffled!
1973
as Andrea Glenn
MovieMolly and Lawless John
1972
as Molly Parker
MovieA Great American Tragedy
1972
as Gloria Wilkes
TVThe Streets of San Francisco
1972
MovieJigsaw
1972
as Lilah Beth Cummings
MovieA Howling in the Woods
1971
as Rose Staines
TVOwen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971
as Nancy Hodges
TVColumbo
1971
as Viveca Scott
TVCannon
1971
MovieCannon
1971
as Diana Langston
MovieIn Search of America
1971
as Jenny Olson
TVAlias Smith and Jones
1971
MovieThe Wild Country
1970
as Kate Tanner
TVDan August
1970
as Carla
TVMedical Center
1969
TVMarcus Welby, M.D.
1969
as Helen Wagner
MovieJourney to the Unknown
1969
as June Wiley
MovieIt Takes All Kinds
1969
as Laura Ring
MovieHellfighters
1968
as Madelyn Buckman
MovieMission Batangas
1968
as Joan Barnes
TVJourney to the Unknown
1968
as June Wiley
TVHawaii Five-O
1968
as Flora Whiting
TVThe Name of the Game
1968
as Marisa Cummings
MovieKona Coast
1968
as Melissa Hyde
MovieSergeant Ryker
1968
as Ann Ryker
MovieGentle Giant
1967
as Ellen Wedloe
TVMannix
1967
as Jean McBride
TVJudd, for the Defense
1967
MovieThe Spirit Is Willing
1967
as Kate Powell
TVIronside
1967
as Barbara Richards
MovieFollow Me, Boys!
1966
as Vida Downey
MovieOne of Our Spies Is Missing
1966
as Madame Raine De Sala
TVHollywood Squares
1966
as Self
TVABC Stage 67
1966
as Adele
TVThe F.B.I.
1965
as Kate Burke
TVI Spy
1965
as Rachel
TVRun for Your Life
1965
as Rachel Pike
MovieThe Hanged Man
1964
as Lois Seeger
MovieThose Calloways
1964
as Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
TVThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
as Madame Raine De Sala
MovieThe Unknown
1964
as Kassia Paine
MovieA Tiger Walks
1964
as Dorothy Williams
MovieRecoil
1963
as Lucy
TVKraft Suspense Theatre
1963
as Ann Ryker
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
as Beth
TVMr. Novak
1963
as Sister Gervaise
TVBurke's Law
1963
as Claudia Sutton
TVThe Fugitive
1963
as Monica Welles
TVThe Outer Limits
1963
as Kassia Paine
TVArrest and Trial
1963
as Jean Forbes
TVThe Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
as Daphne
TVThe Virginian
1962
as Miss Wallace
TVSam Benedict
1962
MovieThe Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
as Hallie Stoddard
MovieBack Street
1961
as Liz Saxon
TVThe Dick Powell Show
1961
as Stella Calman
MovieThe Lawbreakers
1961
as Angela Walsh
TVThe Asphalt Jungle
1961
TVRoute 66
1960
as Ellen Barnes
TVMy Three Sons
1960
as Ernestine Coulter
MoviePsycho
1960
as Lila Crane
MovieFive Branded Women
1960
as Daniza
MovieA Touch of Larceny
1960
as Virginia Killain
TVThe Detectives
1959
as Lucy
TVStartime
1959
as Jean Medwick
TVThe Twilight Zone
1959
as Millicent Barnes
MovieThe FBI Story
1959
as Lucy Ann Hardesty
TVRiverboat
1959
as Jeanette Mowbray
TVBonanza
1959
as Sarah Lowell
MovieWeb of Evidence
1959
as Lena Anderson
TVRawhide
1959
TVWagon Train
1957
as Sister Rita
MovieBeau James
1957
as Betty Compton
MovieThe Wrong Man
1956
as Rose Balestrero
TVDick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
as Jenny Breckenridge
MovieAutumn Leaves
1956
as Virginia Hanson
Movie23 Paces to Baker Street
1956
as Jean Lennox
MovieThe Searchers
1956
as Laurie Jorgensen
MovieThe House Without a Name
1956
MovieMan on the Ledge
1955
as Virginia
TVScreen Director's Playhouse
1955
as Ruth Dahlberg
TVThe 20th Century Fox Hour
1955
as Virginia
TVAlfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as Elsa Spann
TVGunsmoke
1955
as Dr. Sam
MovieWichita
1955
as Laurie McCoy
MovieTarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955
as Jill Hardy
TVThe Millionaire
1955
as Merle Roberts
TVClimax!
1954
as Sally Jordan
TVStudio 57
1954
as The Little Girl's Mother
MoviePride of the Blue Grass
1954
as Linda
MovieSo Big
1953
as Girl (uncredited)
TVCity Detective
1953
MovieThe Charge at Feather River
1953
as Jennie McKeever
TVGeneral Electric Theater
1953
as Terry
TVThe Ford Television Theatre
1952
as Nancy Carr
TVFour Star Playhouse
1952
as Julie Tolin
MovieThe Rose Bowl Story
1952
as Denny Burke
MovieFor Men Only
1952
as Kathy
MovieTwo Tickets to Broadway
1951
as Showgirl (uncredited)
TVSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
as Julie
Lux Video Theatre
1950
as Maureen O'Reilly
The Screen Writer
1950
as Young Actress (uncredited)
TVThe Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
as Self
MovieWhen Willie Comes Marching Home
1950
as Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)
