Psycho1960
As Lila Crane
TMDb 8.4 / 10
Vera Miles
Born
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.
Filmography (76)
The Searchers1956
As Laurie Jorgensen
TMDb 7.7 / 10
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance1962
As Hallie Stoddard
TMDb 7.8 / 10
Psycho II1983
As Lila Loomis
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Wrong Man1956
As Rose Balestrero
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Into the Night1985
As Joan Caper
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Those Calloways1964
As Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Hellfighters1968
As Madelyn Buckman
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Mazes and Monsters1982
As Cat
TMDb 4.3 / 10
The FBI Story1959
As Lucy Ann Hardesty
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Jigsaw1972
As Lilah Beth Cummings
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Charge at Feather River1953
As Jennie McKeever
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Follow Me, Boys!1966
As Vida Downey
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Back Street1961
As Liz Saxon
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Wichita1955
As Laurie McCoy
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Autumn Leaves1956
As Virginia Hanson
TMDb 7.0 / 10
One Little Indian1973
As Doris
TMDb 6.3 / 10
A Tiger Walks1964
As Dorothy Williams
TMDb 5.8 / 10
The Castaway Cowboy1974
As Henrietta MacAvoy
TMDb 6.7 / 10
A Touch of Larceny1960
As Virginia Killain
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Unknown1964
As Kassia Paine
TMDb 7.0 / 10
23 Paces to Baker Street1956
As Jean Lennox
TMDb 6.7 / 10
One of Our Spies Is Missing1966
As Madame Raine De Sala
TMDb 5.5 / 10
The Initiation1984
As Frances Fairchild
TMDb 5.5 / 10
The Wild Country1970
As Kate Tanner
TMDb 6.0 / 10
BrainWaves1983
As Marian Koonan
TMDb 4.3 / 10
Sergeant Ryker1968
As Ann Ryker
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Five Branded Women1960
As Daniza
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Separate Lives1995
As Dr. Ruth Goldin
TMDb 4.8 / 10
Baffled!1973
As Andrea Glenn
TMDb 5.6 / 10
When Willie Comes Marching Home1950
As Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Travis McGee1983
As Julie Lawless
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Man on the Ledge1955
As Virginia
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Spirit Is Willing1967
As Kate Powell
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Beau James1957
As Betty Compton
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Smash-Up on Interstate 51976
As Erica
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Two Tickets to Broadway1951
As Showgirl (uncredited)
TMDb 4.6 / 10
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle1955
As Jill Hardy
TMDb 5.3 / 10
A Howling in the Woods1971
As Rose Staines
TMDb 5.2 / 10
Panic Button
Panic Button1957
As Carolyn Cook
Live Again, Die Again1974
As Marcia Carmichael
TMDb 7.8 / 10
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence1974
As Christine Rhodes
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Gentle Giant1967
As Ellen Wedloe
TMDb 8.5 / 10
Recoil1963
As Lucy
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady1982
TMDb 6.0 / 10
The Hanged Man1964
As Lois Seeger
TMDb 5.1 / 10
The Horror Show1979
As (archive footage)
TMDb 3.4 / 10
A Great American Tragedy1972
As Gloria Wilkes
TMDb 7.5 / 10
International Airport1985
As Elaine Corley
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Runaway!1973
As Ellen Staffo
TMDb 5.7 / 10
It Takes All Kinds1969
As Laura Ring
TMDb 8.0 / 10
The Lawbreakers1961
As Angela Walsh
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Web of Evidence1959
As Lena Anderson
TMDb 4.7 / 10
Our Family Business1981
As Patricia
TMDb 9.0 / 10
For Men Only1952
As Kathy
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Cannon1971
As Diana Langston
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Kona Coast1968
As Melissa Hyde
TMDb 3.3 / 10
The Rose Bowl Story1952
As Denny Burke
TMDb 4.3 / 10
Run for the Roses1977
As Clarissa Stewart
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Molly and Lawless John1972
As Molly Parker
TMDb 3.3 / 10
Mission Batangas1968
As Joan Barnes
TMDb 8.0 / 10
And I Alone Survived1978
As Irene Elder
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The Screen Writer
The Screen Writer1950
As Young Actress (uncredited)
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Fire!1977
As Martha Wagner
TMDb 7.1 / 10
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro1989
As Sophie Kubacki
TMDb 9.0 / 10
So Big1953
As Girl (uncredited)
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Pride of the Blue Grass1954
As Linda
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues1984
As Kate Keller
TMDb 7.0 / 10
In Search of America1971
As Jenny Olson
TMDb 5.3 / 10
State Fair
State Fair1976
As Melissa Bryant
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Roughnecks1980
As Ida McBride
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys1976
As Mrs. Horton
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Journey to the Unknown1969
As June Wiley
The Underground Man1974
As Eleanor Strom
TMDb 6.3 / 10
The House Without a Name1956
As Vera
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Rookie of the Year
Rookie of the Year1955
As Ruth Dahlberg
Filmography and biography: TMDb