Vera Miles
Known For
Acting
Born
1930-08-23 in 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.
Most Known For
Columbo
as Viveca Scott
Bonanza
as Sarah Lowell
Bonanza
as April Christopher
Murder, She Wrote
as Elizabeth Gates
Murder, She Wrote
as Charmaine Calloway Thompson
Murder, She Wrote
as Nancy Landon
The Love Boat
as Bess Hensinger
The Love Boat
as Eve Springer
The Twilight Zone
as Millicent Barnes
Little House on the Prairie
as Ruthy Leland
Magnum, P.I.
as Joan Gibson
The Fugitive
as Monica Welles
Hawaii Five-O
as Flora Whiting
Ironside
as Barbara Richards
Ironside
as Barbara Jones
Ironside
as Gloria Campbell
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Daphne
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Nicky Revere
Mannix
as Jean McBride
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Jenny Breckenridge