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Vera Miles
Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
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…
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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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1995
Separate Lives
Movie Dr. Ruth Goldin
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1989
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
Movie Sophie Kubacki
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1985
International Airport
Movie Elaine Corley
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1985
Into the Night
Movie Joan Caper
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1984
Crazy like a Fox
TV show Georgina Burton
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1984
The Initiation
Movie Frances Fairchild
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1984
Murder, She Wrote
TV show Elizabeth Gates
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1984
Finder of Lost Loves
TV show Joanna Shaw
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1984
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
Movie Kate Keller
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1983
BrainWaves
Movie Marian Koonan
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1983
Psycho II
Movie Lila Loomis
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1983
Travis McGee
Movie Julie Lawless
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1982
Mazes and Monsters
Movie Cat
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1982
Matt Houston
TV show
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1982
Hotel
TV show
- 1982
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1981
Our Family Business
Movie Patricia
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1980
Magnum, P.I.
TV show Joan Gibson
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1980
Roughnecks
Movie Ida McBride
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1979
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
TV show Tora
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1979
The Horror Show
Movie (archive footage)
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1978
And I Alone Survived
Movie Irene Elder
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1978
Fantasy Island
TV show Martha Tate
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1977
The Love Boat
TV show Bess Hensinger
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1977
Run for the Roses
Movie Clarissa Stewart
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1977
Fire!
Movie Martha Wagner
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1977
How the West Was Won
TV show Beth
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1976
State Fair
Movie Melissa Bryant
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1976
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Movie Mrs. Horton
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1976
McNaughton's Daughter
TV show Grace Coventry
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1976
Smash-Up on Interstate 5
Movie Erica
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1975
Ellery Queen
TV show Celeste Wakefield
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1974
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
Movie Christine Rhodes
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1974
Movin' On
TV show
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1974
Little House on the Prairie
TV show Ruthy Leland
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1974
The Castaway Cowboy
Movie Henrietta MacAvoy
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1974
The Underground Man
Movie Eleanor Strom
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1974
Live Again, Die Again
Movie Marcia Carmichael
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1973
Runaway!
Movie Ellen Staffo
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1973
One Little Indian
Movie Doris
