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Separate Lives

as Dr. Ruth Goldin

1995
International Airport

as Elaine Corley

1985
Psycho II

as Lila Loomis

1983
BrainWaves

as Marian Koonan

1983
Mazes and Monsters

as Cat

1982
And I Alone Survived

as Irene Elder

1978
Fire!

as Martha Wagner

1977
The Castaway Cowboy

as Henrietta MacAvoy

1974
Live Again, Die Again

as Marcia Carmichael

1974
One Little Indian

as Doris

1973
Runaway!

as Ellen Staffo

1973
The Wild Country

as Kate Tanner

1970
Sergeant Ryker

as Ann Ryker

1968
The Spirit Is Willing

as Kate Powell

1967
Follow Me, Boys!

as Vida Downey

1966
One of Our Spies Is Missing

as Madame Raine De Sala

1966
The Hanged Man

as Lois Seeger

1964
The Unknown

as Kassia Paine

1964
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

as Hallie Stoddard

1962
The Lawbreakers

as Angela Walsh

1961
Psycho

as Lila Crane

1960
Five Branded Women

as Daniza

1960
The Searchers

as Laurie Jorgensen

1956
The Wrong Man

as Rose Balestrero

1956
Autumn Leaves

as Virginia Hanson

1956
23 Paces to Baker Street

as Jean Lennox

1956
Wichita

as Laurie McCoy

1955
The Charge at Feather River

as Jennie McKeever

1953
Vera Miles Vera Miles

Birthday

1929-08-23

Place of Birth

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.
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