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Vera Miles

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, spirite... more

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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Psycho
(1960)
Drama, Horror, Thriller
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Cast:
Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam
8.5
96%
97
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
(1962)
Western
A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.
Runtime:
123 min
Director:
John Ford
Cast:
John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien
8.1
94%
94
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The Searchers
(1956)
Western
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
Runtime:
119 min
Director:
John Ford
Cast:
John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Natalie Wood, Natalie Wood
7.9
96%
94
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The Wrong Man
(1956)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Cast:
Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold J. Stone, Charles Cooper
7.4
92%
83
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Psycho II
(1983)
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by 'her' demands and begins to question his own sanity.
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
Richard Franklin
Cast:
Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly, Meg Tilly
6.5
60%
54
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Into the Night
(1985)
Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
John Landis
Cast:
Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, Carmen Argenziano, Stacey Pickren, Dan Aykroyd
6.4
40%
41
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Hellfighters
(1968)
Action, Adventure, Romance
The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.
Runtime:
121 min
6.5
14%
N/A
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The FBI Story
(1959)
Drama
A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
Runtime:
149 min
Director:
Mervyn LeRoy
Cast:
James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton, Larry Pennell, Nick Adams
6.6
N/A
N/A
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Follow Me, Boys!
(1966)
Drama, Family
Lem Siddons is part of a traveling band who has a dream of becoming a lawyer. Deciding to settle down, he finds a job as a stockboy in the general store of a small town. Trying to fit in, he volunteers to become scoutmaster of the newly formed Troop 1. Becoming more and more involved with the scout troop, he finds his plans to become a...
Runtime:
131 min
Director:
Norman Tokar
Cast:
Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, Lillian Gish, Charles Ruggles, Elliott Reid
7.2
N/A
N/A
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Autumn Leaves
(1956)
Drama
A woman falls for a younger man with severe mental problems.
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Robert Aldrich
Cast:
Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles, Lorne Greene, Ruth Donnelly
6.7
88%
N/A
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23 Paces to Baker Street
(1956)
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler, and his ex fiancée, attempt to track down the crooks.
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Henry Hathaway
Cast:
Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker, Maurice Denham, Isobel Elsom
7.0
N/A
N/A
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Wichita
(1955)
Action, Romance, Western
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter make him a perfect candidate for Marshal but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law and order to this wild town.
Runtime:
81 min
Director:
Jacques Tourneur
Cast:
Joel McCrea, Vera Miles, Lloyd Bridges, Wallace Ford, Jack Elam
6.9
N/A
N/A
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The Initiation
(1984)
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Kelly, a young woman, has been plagued by nightmares of a burning man her entire life. Upon entering college, she pledges a sorority that forces them to perform an initiation night prank. With several of her friends, she breaks into a store and unfortunately discovers that it is impossible to exit from the building after it is entered ...
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Larry Stewart
Cast:
Vera Miles, Daphne Zuniga, Clu Gulager, James Read, Marilyn Kagan
5.8
N/A
N/A
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Back Street
(1961)
Drama
Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's a definite spark between them but circumstances intervene and he leaves town without her. Later she learns he's married. Determined to make it as a...
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
David Miller
Cast:
Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Vera Miles, Charles Drake, Virginia Grey
6.7
N/A
N/A
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Those Calloways
(1965)
Drama, Family
Story of Cam Calloway and his family, who live in a densely wooded area in New England. Cam dreams of building a sanctuary for the geese that fly over the area each year, and he tries several schemes to buy a nearby lake for this santuary. He is thwarted at every attempt, it seems; he and his son try to get enough furs from their trapp...
Runtime:
131 min
Director:
Norman Tokar
Cast:
Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Brandon De Wilde, Walter Brennan, Ed Wynn
6.9
N/A
N/A
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One Little Indian
(1973)
Comedy, Family, Western
An Army deserter (James Garner) flees by camel across the desert with a white boy (Clay O'Brien) raised by Indians.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Bernard McEveety
Cast:
James Garner, Vera Miles, Pat Hingle, Morgan Woodward, John Doucette
6.6
N/A
N/A
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The Charge at Feather River
(1953)
Western
A frontier scout (Guy Madison) leads prisoners on a death mission to save a railroad and rescue two women.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Gordon Douglas
Cast:
Guy Madison, Frank Lovejoy, Helen Westcott, Vera Miles, Dick Wesson
6.2
N/A
N/A
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Beau James
(1957)
Drama
The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s.
Runtime:
105 min
6.7
N/A
N/A
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The Spirit Is Willing
(1967)
Comedy
When Ben and Kate Powell (Sid Caesar and Vera Miles) rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve (Barry Gordon) gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts. Another of 'exploitation king' William Castle's supernatural films, this one is studded with familiar character actors including Harvey Lembeck, ...
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
William Castle
Cast:
Sid Caesar, Vera Miles, Barry Gordon, John McGiver, Cass Daley
6.0
N/A
N/A
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A Tiger Walks
(1964)
Drama, Family
A tiger escapes from a circus truck as it passes by a small town, and hides itself in the surrounding woods. This throws the town into a panic and everyone wants the animal killed immediately, except for the daughter of the sheriff. She wants to capture the tiger and put it in a zoo, thereby saving the tiger's life. Her determination s...
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Norman Tokar
Cast:
Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Pamela Franklin, Sabu, Edward Andrews
6.7
N/A
N/A
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The Castaway Cowboy
(1974)
Adventure, Comedy, Family, Western
A Wayward Texas cowboy washes up on the beaches of Hawaii and is taken home by an fatherless boy. He saves the family's business while romancing the single mom.
Runtime:
91 min
6.0
N/A
N/A
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Separate Lives
(1995)
Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
The e-cop Tom Beckwith has just quit his police job in order to study psychology. But his professor, Lauren Porter, is more interested in his criminology abilities than in his progress in psychology. Because of traumatic circumstances during her childhood she is suffering from schizophrenia, and it looks like her other ego has just kil...
Runtime:
102 min
5.0
N/A
N/A
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Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
(1955)
Adventure, Drama, Romance
Hunters trespass into Sukulu country, where animals are sacred, posing as photographers.
Runtime:
72 min
Director:
Harold D. Schuster
Cast:
Gordon Scott, Vera Miles, Peter van Eyck, Jack Elam, Charles Fredericks
5.6
N/A
N/A
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One of Our Spies Is Missing
(1966)
Adventure
A biochemist develops a process that reverses ageing but, when he disappears, it's up to Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuryakin to recover or destroy the process before it falls into the hands of the THRUSH.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
E. Darrell Hallenbeck
Cast:
Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Maurice Evans, Vera Miles
5.6
N/A
N/A
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Screen Directors Playhouse: Rookie of the Year
(1955)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A small town sportswriter attending the World Series recognizes a young ballplayer as the son of former baseball hero who was banned for throwing a game.
Runtime:
29 min
Director:
John Ford
Cast:
John Wayne, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, James Gleason, Patrick Wayne
6.9
N/A
N/A
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Baffled!
(1972)
Mystery, Science Fiction, TV Movie, Thriller
Tom Kovack is a hard-nosed race car driver until a sudden supernatural vision causes a near-fatal crash while he's hurtling down the backstretch at 140 miles per hour. Michele Brent is the woman who convinces Kovack that his visions are significant. She leads him to the manor house that appeared in his vision, which in turn leads him i...
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
Philip Leacock
Cast:
Leonard Nimoy, Susan Hampshire, Rachel Roberts, Vera Miles, Jewel Blanch
6.0
N/A
N/A
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The Wild Country
(1970)
Adventure, Family, Western
Uprooted from their comfortable home in Pennsylvania, James and Kate Tanner, along with their sons, Virgil and Andy, journey to the wild country of 1890s Wyoming to become farmers. Soon, they come face-to-face with tornadoes, bears and wolves. But through the hardships their love for each other endures, even when a local rancher sees t...
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Robert Totten
Cast:
Steve Forrest, Vera Miles, Ron Howard, Ron Howard
6.2
N/A
N/A
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
(1984)
Drama
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Alan Gibson
Cast:
Blythe Danner, Mare Winningham, Perry King, Vera Miles, Jack Warden
6.8
N/A
N/A
Web of Evidence
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Web of Evidence
(1959)
Mystery
A World War II evacuee (Van Johnson) returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Jack Cardiff
Cast:
Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Emlyn Williams, Bernard Lee, Jean Kent
7.6
N/A
N/A
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The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
(1974)
Drama, Horror, TV Movie
A family moves into a new home in an isolated area, and soon realizes that someone--or something--doesn't want them there.
Runtime:
78 min
5.9
N/A
N/A
The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
(1989)
Action, Drama
The story of the hijacking of the Itallian liner Achille Lauro by four militants of the Palestine Liberation Front, in 1985, who demanded the release of several Palestinians incarcerated in Israeli prisoners. On their hands, lies the fate of several passengers, many Americans included and among them, Jewish American businessman Leon Kl...
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Robert L. Collins
Cast:
Karl Malden, Lee Grant, E.G. Marshall, Vera Miles, Christina Pickles
6.1
N/A
N/A
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And I Alone Survived
(1978)
Adventure, TV Movie
Based on a true story, this tells the story of a young woman who is the only survivor of a plane crash in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and her struggle to get to safety despite her injuries, below-freezing temperatures and rough, and at times impassable, terrain.
Runtime:
90 min
6.5
N/A
N/A
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Fire!
(1977)
Action, TV Movie
The sheer terror and unearthly beauty of a raging forest fire is breathlessly captured in this compelling Irwin Allen production boasting a big-name cast and enough blazing special effects to turn night into day. Involved are a lumber mill owner (Ernest Borgnine), the widowed operator of a forest lodge (Vera Miles), a teacher on a clas...
Runtime:
100 min
5.2
N/A
N/A
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In Search of America
(1971)
Drama
Michael (Jeff Bridges) drops out of college with the intention of finding himself. When his parents (Carl Betz and Vera Miles) balk, he talks them into joining him in traveling the country and educating themselves about the state of things. They, along with Grandma (Ruth McDevitt) trick out an old Greyhound bus and hit the road. The pi...
Runtime:
73 min
Director:
Paul Bogart
Cast:
Carl Betz, Jeff Bridges, Renne Jarrett, Howard Duff, Kim Hunter
5.6
N/A
N/A
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The Hanged Man
(1964)
Crime, Drama, TV Movie, Thriller
A gunman whose best friend has been murdered enacts a plan to blackmail the corrupt labor union leader responsible but finds he isn't the only one after his money.
Runtime:
87 min
6.8
N/A
N/A
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International Airport
(1985)
Drama, TV Movie
Manager of a large metropolitan airport tries to deal with the stress of his job, and the various characters that work for him.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Don Chaffey, Charles S. Dubin
Cast:
Gil Gerard, Berlinda Tolbert, Pat Crowley, Bill Bixby, Susan Blakely
6.0
N/A
N/A
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The Lawbreakers
(1961)
Crime, Drama
The story of a scheme to double-cross the syndicate and steal its money, and of a police commissioner '​s efforts to investigate homicides that take place as the scheme unfolds while also fighting corruption in the city government and police department.
Runtime:
79 min
Director:
Joseph M. Newman
Cast:
Jack Warden, Vera Miles
7.2
N/A
N/A
The Unknown
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The Unknown
(1964)
Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie
Near Aix-les-Bains (South-East of France), two women, Kassia and Leonora, are driven by a fanatical blackmailer, named André, in a white Rolls Royce at full speed. Suddenly, they stop near a lake, in the middle of the woods, where the man decides to have a swim. He asks the two women for a drink. The women plan to assassinate him by in...
Runtime:
60 min
Director:
Gerd Oswald
Cast:
Vera Miles, Barbara Rush, David McCallum, Cedric Hardwicke, Scott Marlowe
6.9
N/A
N/A
Pride of the Blue Grass
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Pride of the Blue Grass
(1954)
Drama
A girl owns a horse, and hires a boy as a trainer. The horse (Gypsy Prince) enters a race and is injured. The boy takes job at another stable and is semi-seduced by the stable siren. The girl finally rehabilitates the horse then enters it in a big race. Written by Les Adams
Runtime:
71 min
6.6
N/A
N/A
A Great American Tragedy
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A Great American Tragedy
(1972)
Drama
A middle-aged aerospace engineer has his whole life changed when he is suddenly laid off from his job. Unable to find work because of his age and a bad economy, he watches his bills pile up, his wife forced to go back to work and his marriage start to break up.
Runtime:
75 min
5.4
N/A
N/A