Actor

Vera Miles

August 23, 1930 · 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.

Notable work

8.4
Psycho (1960)
as Lila Crane
7.7
The Searchers (1956)
as Laurie Jorgensen
7.8
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
as Hallie Stoddard
8.5
The Twilight Zone (1959)
as Millicent Barnes
8
Little House on the Prairie (1974)
as Ruthy Leland
8.1
Columbo (1971)
as Viveca Scott
6.5
Psycho II (1983)
as Lila Loomis
7.1
The Wrong Man (1956)
as Rose Balestrero
7.5
Bonanza (1959)
as Sarah Lowell and as April Christopher
7.5
Murder, She Wrote (1984)
as Elizabeth Gates and as Charmaine Calloway Thompson and as Nancy Landon
7.3
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
as Joan Gibson
6.5
Into the Night (1985)
as Joan Caper

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