Vera Miles
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.
Psycho
as Lila CraneWhen larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of...
Movie pageThe Searchers
as Laurie JorgensenAs a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his...
Movie pageThe Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
as Hallie StoddardQuestions arise when Senator Stoddard (James Stewart) attends the funeral of a local man named...
Movie pagePsycho II
as Lila LoomisNorman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite...
Movie pageInto the Night
as Joan CaperEd Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he...
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as CatBound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his four college classmates...
Movie page23 Paces to Baker Street
as Jean LennoxPhilip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that...
Movie pageThe Initiation
as Frances FairchildAn amnesiac sorority member who has been plagued by a recurring nightmare is stalked alongside...
Movie pageThe Wrong Man
as Rose BalestreroIn 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being...
Movie pageWichita
as Laurie McCoyFormer buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita...
Movie pageHitchcock/Truffaut
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma...
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as Madelyn BuckmanThe adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who...
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as Henrietta MacAvoyA Wayward Texas cowboy washes up on the beaches of Hawaii and is taken home by an fatherless...
Movie pageThe Spirit Is Willing
as Kate PowellWhen Ben and Kate Powell rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve gets...
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as Jennie McKeeverA frontier scout leads prisoners on a death mission to save a railroad and rescue two women.
Movie pageAutumn Leaves
as Virginia HansonA woman falls for a younger man with severe mental problems.
Movie pageSeparate Lives
as Dr. Ruth GoldinTom Beckwith has just quit his job as a police officer in order to study psychology. But his...
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as Vida DowneyLem Siddons is part of a traveling band who has a dream of becoming a lawyer. Deciding to settle...
Movie pageThe Hanged Man
as Lois SeegerA gunman whose best friend has been murdered enacts a plan to blackmail the corrupt labor union...
Movie pageOne of Our Spies Is Missing
as Madame Raine De SalaA biochemist develops a process that reverses ageing but, when he disappears, it's up to...
Movie pageThose Calloways
as Lydia (Liddy) CallowayStory of Cam Calloway and his family, who live in a densely wooded area in New England. Cam...
Movie pageFive Branded Women
as DanizaFive Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished...
Movie pageAnd I Alone Survived
as Irene ElderBased on a true story, this tells the story of a young woman who is the only survivor of a plane...
Movie pageWhen Willie Comes Marching Home
as Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only...
Movie pageBack Street
as Liz SaxonAmbitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department...
Movie pageMolly and Lawless John
as Molly ParkerMolly, the shy, romance-starved wife of an arrogant frontier sheriff, finds herself drawn to a...
Movie pageThe Psycho Legacy
as Self (archive footage)The cast and crew of all four Psycho films recall their time working on the influential horror...
Movie pageThe FBI Story
as Lucy Ann HardestyA dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and...
Movie pageBaffled!
as Andrea GlennTom Kovack is a hard-nosed race car driver until a sudden supernatural vision causes a...
Movie pageOne Little Indian
as DorisAn Army deserter (James Garner) flees by camel across the desert with a white boy (Clay O'Brien)...
Movie pageFire!
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Movie pageA Touch of Larceny
as Virginia KillainAfter falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man,...
Movie pageA Howling in the Woods
as Rose StainesA disillusioned housewife on a vacation in the woods is disturbed by her husband continually...
Movie page24 Hour Psycho
as Lila Crane (archive footage)24 Hour Psycho is the title of an art installation created by artist Douglas Gordon in 1993. The...
Movie pageSergeant Ryker
as Ann RykerDuring the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then...
Movie pageMan on the Ledge
as VirginiaBeat cop Bragan is about to go off duty when he discovers a man standing on the ledge of a hotel...
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as EricaIn this made-for-TV disaster movie, the lives of a group of motorists are chronicled...
Movie pageJigsaw
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Movie pageThe Wild Country
as Kate TannerUprooted from their comfortable home in Pennsylvania, James and Kate Tanner, along with their...
Movie pageA Tiger Walks
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Movie pageWeb of Evidence
as Lena AndersonA World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for...
Movie pageTwo Tickets to Broadway
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Movie pageThe Underground Man
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Movie pageLive Again, Die Again
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Movie pageBrainWaves
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Movie pageThe Rose Bowl Story
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Movie pageJudge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
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TV Show pageThe Fugitive
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TV Show pageBonanza
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TV Show pageBonanza
as April ChristopherThe High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch...
TV Show pageIronside
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TV Show pageIronside
as Barbara RichardsWhen an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of...
TV Show pageIronside
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as Ruthy LelandLittle House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael...
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as Sister RitaThe series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later...
TV Show pageWagon Train
as Janice StuartThe series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later...
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as Miss WallaceThe Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...
TV Show pageThe Virginian
as Maggie MenkenThe Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...
TV Show pageClimax!
as Sally JordanClimax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...
TV Show pageClimax!
as Jan MichaelsClimax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...
TV Show pageClimax!
as Janet ReeseClimax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was...
TV Show pageThe Love Boat
as Bess HensingerPassengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or...
TV Show pageThe Love Boat
as Eve SpringerPassengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or...
TV Show pageHotel
as uncreditedHotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May...
TV Show pageMurder, She Wrote
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TV Show pageMurder, She Wrote
as Charmaine Calloway ThompsonAn unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...
TV Show pageMurder, She Wrote
as Nancy LandonAn unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...
TV Show pageCannon
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TV Show pageHawaii Five-O
as Flora WhitingHawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and...
TV Show pageThe Twilight Zone
as Millicent BarnesA series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science...
TV Show pageMy Three Sons
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TV Show pageBurke's Law
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TV Show pageMannix
as Jean McBrideMannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS....
TV Show pageMedical Center
as uncreditedMedical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. It was produced...
TV Show pageMedical Center
as Dr. Gloria HallMedical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. It was produced...
TV Show pageDick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Jenny BreckenridgeDick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American...
TV Show pageThe Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as DaphneA continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of...
TV Show pageThe Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Nicky RevereA continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of...
TV Show pageRoute 66
as Ellen BarnesRoute 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet...
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as Rachel PikeRun for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only...
TV Show pageThe Outer Limits
as Kassia PaineThe Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes...
TV Show pageThe F.B.I.
as Kate BurkeThe F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was...
TV Show pageThe Name of the Game
as Marisa CummingsThe Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and...
TV Show pageThe Name of the Game
as Tracy CannonThe Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and...
TV Show pageMarcus Welby, M.D.
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TV Show pageMarcus Welby, M.D.
as Janet DevaneyMarcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from...
TV Show pageRawhide
as uncreditedThe tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across...
TV Show pageRawhide
as Helen WalshThe tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across...
TV Show pageThe Detectives
as LucyThe Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons,...
TV Show pageThe Millionaire
as Merle RobertsAn anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better...
TV Show pageThe Colgate Comedy Hour
as SelfThe Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC...
TV Show pageKraft Suspense Theatre
as Ann RykerKraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on...
TV Show pageMr. Novak
as Sister GervaiseMr. Novak is an American dramatic series starring James Franciscus in the title role, which...
TV Show pageMatt Houston
as uncreditedMatt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by...
TV Show pageStudio 57
as The Little Girl's MotherStudio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont...
TV Show pageJudd for the Defense
as uncreditedHigh-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases...
TV Show pageAlias Smith and Jones
as uncreditedAlias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to...
TV Show pageThe Streets of San Francisco
as uncreditedTwo police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate...
TV Show pageRiverboat
as Jeanette MowbrayRiverboat is a 44-episode western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds...
TV Show pageI Spy
as RachelA pair of intelligence agents posing as a tennis pro and his coach go on secret missions around...
TV Show pageHow the West Was Won
as BethThe Macahans, a family from Virginia headed by Zeb Macahan, travel across the country to pioneer...
TV Show pageThe 20th Century Fox Hour
as uncreditedThe 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States...
TV Show pageBuck Rogers in the 25th Century
as Tora20th-century astronaut Buck Rogers awakens in the 25th century after a freak accident puts him...
TV Show pageGunsmoke
as Dr. SamGunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman...
TV Show pageEllery Queen
as Celeste WakefieldEllery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character...
TV Show pageCrazy like a Fox
as Georgina BurtonCrazy Like a Fox is an American television series set in San Francisco, California, that aired...
TV Show pageScreen Director's Playhouse
as Ruth DahlbergPresented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed...
TV Show pageThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Madame Raine De SalaAgents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the...
TV Show pageAlfred Hitchcock Presents
as Elsa SpannA television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
TV Show pageAlfred Hitchcock Presents
as Jean MedwickA television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
TV Show pageCity Detective
as uncreditedCrime drama starring Rod Cameron as 43-year-old Bart Grant, a tough 1950s New York City police...
TV Show pageThe Dick Powell Show
as Stella CalmanThe Dick Powell Show is an American anthology series that ran on NBC from 1961- 1963, primarily...
TV Show pageJourney to the Unknown
as June WileyA British television anthology series. The series has a fantasy, science fiction and...
TV Show pageSam Benedict
as uncreditedSam Benedict is an American legal drama that aired on NBC from September 1962 to March 1963. The...
TV Show pageArrest and Trial
as Jean ForbesArrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964...
TV Show pageFinder of Lost Loves
as Joanna ShawThe Finder of Lost Loves TV show was a 60 minute drama series on ABC about a private...
TV Show pageDan August
as CarlaDan August is a Quinn Martin crime drama series which aired on ABC from 1970-1971. The series...
TV Show pageMovin' On
as uncreditedMovin' On is an American drama series that ran for two seasons, between 1974 and 1976. It...
TV Show pageABC Stage 67
as AdeleABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety...
TV Show pageStartime
as Jean MedwickStartime is an anthology show of drama, comedy, and variety, and was one of the first American...
TV Show pageThe Asphalt Jungle
as uncreditedPolice adventure series set in a modern American metropolis, concerning the problems of a...
TV Show pageSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
as JulieSchlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....
TV Show pageSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Sarah LarkinSchlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....
TV Show pageSchlitz Playhouse of Stars
as uncreditedSchlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....
TV Show pageGeneral Electric Theater
as TerryGeneral Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...
TV Show pageGeneral Electric Theater
as Mrs. EatonGeneral Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...
TV Show pageGeneral Electric Theater
as uncreditedGeneral Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...
TV Show pageGeneral Electric Theater
as Nora DouglasGeneral Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...
TV Show pageGeneral Electric Theater
as Debra StoneGeneral Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was...
TV Show pageMcNaughton's Daughter
as Grace CoventrySeries pilot about a female deputy district attorney assigned the task of trying to pin a murder...
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