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

• 1995Separate Lives — Dr. Ruth Goldin
• 1989The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro — Sophie Kubacki
• 1985International Airport — Elaine Corley
• 1985Into the Night — Joan Caper
• Crazy like a Fox — Georgina Burton
• Finder of Lost Loves — Joanna Shaw
• 1984Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues — Kate Keller
• Murder, She Wrote — Elizabeth Gates, Charmaine Calloway Thompson, Nancy Landon
• 1984The Initiation — Frances Fairchild
• 1983BrainWaves — Marian Koonan
• 1983Psycho II — Lila Loomis
• 1983Travis McGee — Julie Lawless
• Hotel — Teresa Clayborne, Millie Broom
• Matt Houston
• 1982Mazes and Monsters — Cat
• 1981Our Family Business — Patricia
• Magnum, P.I. — Joan Gibson
• 1980Roughnecks — Ida McBride
• Buck Rogers in the 25th Century — Tora
• 1979The Horror Show — (archive footage)
• 1978And I Alone Survived — Irene Elder
• Fantasy Island — Martha Tate
• 1977Fire! — Martha Wagner
• How the West Was Won — Beth
• 1977Run for the Roses — Clarissa Stewart
• The Love Boat — Bess Hensinger, Eve Springer
• 1976Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys — Mrs. Horton
• McNaughton's Daughter — Grace Coventry
• 1976Smash-Up on Interstate 5 — Erica
• 1976State Fair — Melissa Bryant
• Ellery Queen — Celeste Wakefield
• Little House on the Prairie — Ruthy Leland
• 1974Live Again, Die Again — Marcia Carmichael
• Movin' On
• 1974The Castaway Cowboy — Henrietta MacAvoy
• 1974The Strange and Deadly Occurrence — Christine Rhodes
• 1974The Underground Man — Eleanor Strom
• 1973Baffled! — Andrea Glenn
• 1973One Little Indian — Doris
• 1973Runaway! — Ellen Staffo
• 1972A Great American Tragedy — Gloria Wilkes
• 1972Jigsaw — Lilah Beth Cummings
• 1972Molly and Lawless John — Molly Parker
• The Streets of San Francisco
• 1971A Howling in the Woods — Rose Staines
• Alias Smith and Jones
• 1971Cannon — Diana Langston
• Cannon — Vivian Cabe
• Columbo — Viveca Scott
• 1971In Search of America — Jenny Olson
• Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law — Nancy Hodges
• Dan August — Carla
• 1970The Wild Country — Kate Tanner
• Hawaii Five-O — Flora Whiting
• 1969It Takes All Kinds — Laura Ring
• 1969Journey to the Unknown — June Wiley
• Marcus Welby, M.D. — Helen Wagner, Janet Devaney
• Medical Center — Dr. Gloria Hall
• 1968Hellfighters — Madelyn Buckman
• Journey to the Unknown — June Wiley
• 1968Kona Coast — Melissa Hyde
• 1968Mission Batangas — Joan Barnes
• 1968Sergeant Ryker — Ann Ryker
• The Name of the Game — Marisa Cummings, Tracy Cannon
• 1967Gentle Giant — Ellen Wedloe
• Ironside — Barbara Richards, Barbara Jones, Gloria Campbell
• Judd, for the Defense
• Mannix — Jean McBride
• 1967The Spirit Is Willing — Kate Powell
• ABC Stage 67 — Adele
• 1966Follow Me, Boys! — Vida Downey
• 1966One of Our Spies Is Missing — Madame Raine De Sala
• I Spy — Rachel
• Run for Your Life — Rachel Pike
• The F.B.I. — Kate Burke
• 1964A Tiger Walks — Dorothy Williams
• 1964The Hanged Man — Lois Seeger
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. — Madame Raine De Sala
• 1964The Unknown — Kassia Paine
• 1964Those Calloways — Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
• Arrest and Trial — Jean Forbes
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre — Beth
• Burke's Law — Claudia Sutton
• Kraft Suspense Theatre — Ann Ryker
• Mr. Novak — Sister Gervaise
• 1963Recoil — Lucy
• The Fugitive — Monica Welles
• The Outer Limits — Kassia Paine
• Sam Benedict
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour — Daphne, Nicky Revere
• 1962The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance — Hallie Stoddard
• The Virginian — Miss Wallace, Maggie Menken
• 1961Back Street — Liz Saxon
• The Asphalt Jungle
• The Dick Powell Show — Stella Calman
• 1961The Lawbreakers — Angela Walsh
• 1960A Touch of Larceny — Virginia Killain
• 1960Five Branded Women — Daniza
• My Three Sons — Ernestine Coulter
• 1960Psycho — Lila Crane
• Route 66 — Ellen Barnes
• Bonanza — Sarah Lowell, April Christopher
• Rawhide — Helen Walsh
• Riverboat — Jeanette Mowbray
• Startime — Jean Medwick
• The Detectives — Lucy
• 1959The FBI Story — Lucy Ann Hardesty
• The Twilight Zone — Millicent Barnes
• 1959Web of Evidence — Lena Anderson
• 1957Beau James — Betty Compton
• 1957Panic Button — Carolyn Cook
• Wagon Train — Sister Rita, Janice Stuart
• 195623 Paces to Baker Street — Jean Lennox
• 1956Autumn Leaves — Virginia Hanson
• Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre — Jenny Breckenridge
• 1956The House Without a Name — Vera
• 1956The Searchers — Laurie Jorgensen
• 1956The Wrong Man — Rose Balestrero
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Elsa Spann
• Gunsmoke — Dr. Sam
• 1955Man on the Ledge — Virginia
• 1955Rookie of the Year — Ruth Dahlberg
• Screen Director's Playhouse — Ruth Dahlberg
• 1955Tarzan's Hidden Jungle — Jill Hardy
• The 20th Century Fox Hour — Virginia
• The Millionaire — Merle Roberts
• 1955Wichita — Laurie McCoy
• Climax! — Sally Jordan, Jan Michaels, Janet Reese
• 1954Pride of the Blue Grass — Linda
• Studio 57 — The Little Girl's Mother
• City Detective
• General Electric Theater — Terry, Mrs. Eaton, Nora Douglas, Debra Stone
• 1953So Big — Girl (uncredited)
• 1953The Charge at Feather River — Jennie McKeever
• 1952For Men Only — Kathy
• Four Star Playhouse — Julie Tolin, Maggie
• The Ford Television Theatre — Nancy Carr
• 1952The Rose Bowl Story — Denny Burke
• Schlitz Playhouse of Stars — Julie, Sarah Larkin
• 1951Two Tickets to Broadway — Showgirl (uncredited)
• Lux Video Theatre — Maureen O'Reilly, Christine Carroll Kimberly, Jenny, Audrey O'Connor
• 1950The Screen Writer — Young Actress (uncredited)
• 1950When Willie Comes Marching Home — Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 1982Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady — Self
• Hollywood Squares — Self, Self - Center Square
• The Colgate Comedy Hour — Self