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Vera Miles
🎂 Aug 23, 1930 (95)
Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
Vera Miles, born in Boise City, Oklahoma, USA, is an actor and producer. Made their debut in 1950 with When Willie Comes Marching Home. Best known for Psycho, playing Lila Crane. Also starred in The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Their filmography spans 76 movies and 97 TV shows over 76 years, across genres including thriller, horror, mystery.
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Psycho
1960
Psycho II
1983
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
The Searchers
1956
Five Branded Women
1960
Into the Night
1985
The Wrong Man
1956
The FBI Story
1959
So Big
1953
Those Calloways
1964
Wichita
1955
The Initiation
1984
Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955
Beau James
1957
Hellfighters
1968
The Castaway Cowboy
1974
Separate Lives
1995
The Wild Country
1970
When Willie Comes Marching Home
1950
The Charge at Feather River
1953
One of Our Spies Is Missing
1966
23 Paces to Baker Street
1956
Back Street
1961
Sergeant Ryker
1968
Follow Me, Boys!
1966
Autumn Leaves
1956
One Little Indian
1973
The Spirit Is Willing
1967
A Tiger Walks
1964
The Rose Bowl Story
1952
A Touch of Larceny
1960
A Great American Tragedy
1972
Web of Evidence
1959
BrainWaves
1983
The Lawbreakers
1961
Two Tickets to Broadway
1951
Molly and Lawless John
1972
Kona Coast
1968
For Men Only
1952
TV Shows
My Three Sons
1960
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1979
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
The Love Boat
1977
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Magnum, P.I.
1980
Columbo
1971
Burke's Law
1963
Little House on the Prairie
1974
The F.B.I.
1965
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969
Mannix
1967
Gunsmoke
1955
General Electric Theater
1953
The Twilight Zone
1959
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Crazy like a Fox
1984
Run for Your Life
1965
The Fugitive
1963
The Millionaire
1955
The Virginian
1962
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Climax!
1954
Mr. Novak
1963
Riverboat
1959
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
The Outer Limits
1963
Wagon Train
1957
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Vera Miles
1930-08-23 · 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 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.