
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.

as Dr. Ruth Goldin

as Sophie Kubacki

as Elaine Corley

as Joan Caper

as Frances Fairchild

as Kate Keller

as Marian Koonan

as Lila Loomis

as Julie Lawless

as Cat

as Patricia

as Ida McBride

as (archive footage)

as Irene Elder

as Clarissa Stewart

as Martha Wagner

as Melissa Bryant

as Mrs. Horton

as Erica

as Christine Rhodes

as Henrietta MacAvoy

as Eleanor Strom

as Marcia Carmichael

as Ellen Staffo

as Doris

as Andrea Glenn

as Molly Parker

as Gloria Wilkes

as Lilah Beth Cummings

as Rose Staines

as Diana Langston

as Jenny Olson

as Kate Tanner

as June Wiley

as Laura Ring

as Madelyn Buckman

as Joan Barnes

as Melissa Hyde

as Ann Ryker

as Ellen Wedloe

as Kate Powell

as Vida Downey

as Madame Raine De Sala

as Lois Seeger

as Lydia (Liddy) Calloway

as Kassia Paine

as Dorothy Williams

as Lucy

as Hallie Stoddard

as Liz Saxon

as Angela Walsh

as Lila Crane

as Daniza

as Virginia Killain

as Lucy Ann Hardesty

as Lena Anderson

as Carolyn Cook

as Betty Compton

as Rose Balestrero

as Virginia Hanson

as Jean Lennox

as Laurie Jorgensen

as Vera

as Virginia

as Ruth Dahlberg

as Laurie McCoy

as Jill Hardy

as Linda

as Girl (uncredited)

as Jennie McKeever

as Denny Burke

as Kathy

as Showgirl (uncredited)

as Young Actress (uncredited)

as Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)