Cast & creator

Vera Miles

1930-08-23 (age 96) Boise City, Oklahoma, USAIMDb

Best known for Columbo, Bonanza, Bonanza

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.

Also known as: Vera June Ralston, Vera June Miles, ورا مایلز

Movies

film credits

Series

100

television credits

Career

176

1950–1995 · acting roles

Credit score

6.6

average across scored titles

Signature credits

Known for

Ordered by popularity

★ 8.1

Columbo

Viveca Scott · 1971

★ 7.5

Bonanza

Sarah Lowell · 1959

★ 7.5

Bonanza

April Christopher · 1959

★ 6.3

The Love Boat

Bess Hensinger · 1977

★ 6.3

The Love Boat

Eve Springer · 1977

Across film & television

Filmography (176)

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Vera Miles

Known for

Columbo

Bonanza

Bonanza

The Love Boat

The Love Boat

Filmography (176)

Columbo

Bonanza

Bonanza

The Love Boat

The Love Boat

Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote

Hawaii Five-O

Magnum, P.I.

Wagon Train

Wagon Train

Wagon Train

The Fugitive

Mannix

Little House on the Prairie

Ironside

Ironside

Ironside

Climax!

Climax!

Climax!

Cannon

Cannon

Four Star Playhouse

Four Star Playhouse

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The Virginian

The Virginian

The Twilight Zone

My Three Sons

Hotel

Hotel

Hotel

The F.B.I.

Rawhide

Rawhide

The Name of the Game

The Name of the Game

Route 66

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Burke's Law

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

Fantasy Island

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Medical Center

Medical Center

Gunsmoke

The Streets of San Francisco

Run for Your Life

The Outer Limits

The Detectives

The 20th Century Fox Hour

Matt Houston

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The Ford Television Theatre

Kraft Suspense Theatre

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Judd, for the Defense

Studio 57

The Millionaire

Psycho

Alias Smith and Jones

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Crazy like a Fox

I Spy

Mr. Novak

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

Ellery Queen