Vera Miles

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.

Filmografi

Psycho1960 · Lila CraneThe Searchers1956 · Laurie JorgensenThe Man Who Shot Liberty Valance1962 · Hallie StoddardPsycho II1983 · Lila LoomisThe Unknown1964 · Kassia PaineBack Street1961 · Liz SaxonHellfighters1968 · Madelyn BuckmanInto the Night1985 · Joan CaperThe Wrong Man1956 · Rose BalestreroPanic Button1957 · Carolyn CookJigsaw1972 · Lilah Beth CummingsHelen Keller: The Miracle Continues1984 · Kate KellerFollow Me, Boys!1966 · Vida DowneyIt Takes All Kinds1969 · Laura RingNatalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady1982 · SelfRecoil1963 · LucyOne Little Indian1973 · DorisA Touch of Larceny1960 · Virginia KillainRookie of the Year1955 · Ruth DahlbergOur Family Business1981 · PatriciaFor Men Only1952 · KathyMazes and Monsters1982 · CatWeb of Evidence1959 · Lena AndersonWichita1955 · Laurie McCoy