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 (19...
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Complete Filmography

Hitchcock/Truffaut
2015
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and pu...

The Psycho Legacy
2010
as Self (archive footage)
The cast and crew of all four Psycho films recall their time working on the influential horror series, and modern masters of horror reminisce on what ...

Separate Lives
1995
as Dr. Ruth Goldin
Tom Beckwith has just quit his job as a police officer in order to study psychology. But his professor, Lauren Porter, is more interested in his crimi...

24 Hour Psycho
1993
as Lila Crane (archive footage)
24 Hour Psycho is the title of an art installation created by artist Douglas Gordon in 1993. The work consists entirely of an appropriation of Alfred ...

The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro
1989
as Sophie Kubacki
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 ...

International Airport
1985
as Elaine Corley
Manager of a large metropolitan airport tries to deal with the stress of his job, and the various characters that work for him.

Into the Night
1985
as Joan Caper
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.

The Initiation
1984
as Frances Fairchild
An amnesiac sorority member who has been plagued by a recurring nightmare is stalked alongside other coeds by a killer in a deserted department store ...
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
1984
as Kate Keller

BrainWaves
1983
as Marian Koonan
After a traffic accident Kaylie is in coma for months and her doctors want to try a new procedure on her. To regain her consciousness, they stimulate ...

Psycho II
1983
as Lila Loomis
Norman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite the complaints of Lila Loomis, sister of his most fam...

Travis McGee
1983
as Julie Lawless
Travis McGee is a world-weary private eye trying to help boat skipper friend Van Harder salvage his reputation that sank when his boat ran aground, re...

Mazes and Monsters
1982
as Cat
Bound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his four college classmates decide to move the board game into the local cavern. R...

Our Family Business
1981
as Patricia
A syndicate mob boss doesn't realize that his eldest son, Gep, has been informing to the police on the family's dealings in exchange for protection, w...

Roughnecks
1980
as Ida McBride
Ida McBride decides to drill for oil on her ranch, against her son Tom's wishes. A contentious crew of wildcatters arrives, including a stalwart drill...

The Horror Show
1979
as (archive footage)
A history of horror movies.

And I Alone Survived
1978
as Irene Elder
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 struggl...

Run for the Roses
1977
as Clarissa Stewart
Juanito, a boy from Puerto Rico, finds himself in Kentucky and drawn to a thoroughbred horse. He believes the horse can win the Derby and eventually o...

Fire!
1977
as Martha Wagner
The sheer terror and unearthly beauty of a raging forest fire is breathlessly captured in this compelling Irwin Allen production boasting a big-name c...
State Fair
1976
as Melissa Bryant
Melissa and Jim Bryant live on an Iowa farm with their adult son Chuck, their adult daughter Karen, and their teenage son Wayne, who is a high school ...

Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
1976
as Mrs. Horton
In 1930s Alabama, nine young black men are accused of raping two white women. The judge in the case, unlike the rest of the town, comes to believe tha...

Smash-Up on Interstate 5
1976
as Erica
In this made-for-TV disaster movie, the lives of a group of motorists are chronicled retrospectively after they're involved in a 39-car pile-up on Cal...

The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
1974
as Christine Rhodes
A family moves into a new home in an isolated area, and soon realizes that someone--or something--doesn't want them there.

The Castaway Cowboy
1974
as Henrietta MacAvoy
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 s...

The Underground Man
1974
as Eleanor Strom
A private detective goes after the kidnappers of his ex-girlfriend's son and becomes involved in a series of murders.

Live Again, Die Again
1974
as Marcia Carmichael
After being cryogenically frozen for more than 30 years, a woman wakes to find her husband an old man and her children older than she is. Her daughter...

Runaway!
1973
as Ellen Staffo
A group of skiers are trapped inside a runaway train hurtling down a mountainside.

One Little Indian
1973
as Doris
An Army deserter flees by camel across the desert with a caucasian boy raised by Indians.

Baffled!
1973
as Andrea Glenn
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 14...

Molly and Lawless John
1972
as Molly Parker
Molly, the shy, romance-starved wife of an arrogant frontier sheriff, finds herself drawn to a prisoner in her husband's jail. This prisoner, a handso...
A Great American Tragedy
1972
as Gloria Wilkes
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 ba...

Jigsaw
1972
as Lilah Beth Cummings
In this pilot for the 1972-73 series, a detective specializing in missing persons cases finds himself accused of murder after being found unconscious ...

A Howling in the Woods
1971
as Rose Staines
A disillusioned housewife on a vacation in the woods is disturbed by her husband continually trying to get her to come home and, more ominously, a mys...

Cannon
1971
as Diana Langston
In this pilot film to the TV series, Cannon investigates the murder of a war buddy to clear the man's wife of suspicion in his death.

In Search of America
1971
as Jenny Olson
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 int...

The Wild Country
1970
as Kate Tanner
Uprooted from their comfortable home in Pennsylvania, James and Kate Tanner, along with their sons, Virgil and Andy, journey to the wild country of 18...

Journey to the Unknown
1969
as June Wiley
TV Movie consisting of two episodes of the UK TV series "Journey to the Unknown" (1968): 'Matakitas is Coming' (episode 1.3) and 'The Last Visitor' (e...

It Takes All Kinds
1969
as Laura Ring
After possibly killing a man in a brawl at a farewell party Tony Gunther, an American merchant seaman, is knocked out and wakes up in the apartment of...

Hellfighters
1968
as Madelyn Buckman
The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the worl...

Mission Batangas
1968
as Joan Barnes
Dennis Weaver is a mercenary pilot in the Pacific during WW2. He agrees to help Vera Miles steal the Phillipine treasury of gold away from the conquer...

Kona Coast
1968
as Melissa Hyde
Sam Moran is a Honolulu charter-boat captain who leads fishing expeditions in the tropical paradise. When his daughter is found murdered at the party ...

Sergeant Ryker
1968
as Ann Ryker
During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then returning to his unit as a spy. He's court-martialed and...

Gentle Giant
1967
as Ellen Wedloe
The Story of a boy and his bear.

The Spirit Is Willing
1967
as Kate Powell
When Ben and Kate Powell rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts.

Follow Me, Boys!
1966
as Vida Downey
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 sto...

One of Our Spies Is Missing
1966
as Madame Raine De Sala
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 pro...

The Hanged Man
1964
as Lois Seeger
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 aft...

Those Calloways
1964
as Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
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 Unknown
1964
as Kassia Paine
After two women poison the blackmailer who has been tormenting them, they wind up at the house of a blind man whose eccentric guest believes he has bu...

A Tiger Walks
1964
as Dorothy Williams
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 eve...

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
1962
as Hallie Stoddard
Questions arise when Senator Stoddard attends the funeral of a local man named Tom Doniphon in a small Western town. Flashing back, we learn Doniphon ...

Back Street
1961
as Liz Saxon
Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on ...

The Lawbreakers
1961
as Angela Walsh
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 p...

Psycho
1960
as Lila Crane
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 ...

Five Branded Women
1960
as Daniza
Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fe...

A Touch of Larceny
1960
as Virginia Killain
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that...

The FBI Story
1959
as Lucy Ann Hardesty
A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.

Web of Evidence
1959
as Lena Anderson
A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.

Beau James
1957
as Betty Compton
The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s.

The Wrong Man
1956
as Rose Balestrero
In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.

Autumn Leaves
1956
as Virginia Hanson
A woman falls for a younger man with severe mental problems.

23 Paces to Baker Street
1956
as Jean Lennox
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...

The Searchers
1956
as Laurie Jorgensen
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

The House Without a Name
1956
The House Without a Name is a 1956 short documentary film written and produced by Valentine Davies for the Motion Picture Relief Fund. It was nominate...

Man on the Ledge
1955
as Virginia
Beat cop Bragan is about to go off duty when he discovers a man standing on the ledge of a hotel more than a dozen stories up. Bragan tries to talk th...

Wichita
1955
as Laurie McCoy
Former buffalo hunter and entrepreneur Wyatt Earp arrives in the lawless cattle town of Wichita Kansas. His skill as a gun-fighter makes him a perfect...

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle
1955
as Jill Hardy
Hunters trespass into Sukulu country, where animals are sacred, posing as photographers.

Pride of the Blue Grass
1954
as Linda
A girl owns a horse, and hires a boy as a trainer. The horse enters a race and is injured. The boy takes job at another stable and is semi-seduced by ...

So Big
1953
as Girl (uncredited)
A girl of wealth comes to a Dutch community outside Chicago as a schoolteacher, and while there falls in love with a poor but big-hearted farmer.

The Charge at Feather River
1953
as Jennie McKeever
A frontier scout leads prisoners on a death mission to save a railroad and rescue two women.

The Rose Bowl Story
1952
as Denny Burke
The newly crowned Rose Bowl Princess and a tough but tender football player find the California Rose Bowl is an area for their budding romance.

For Men Only
1952
as Kathy
A college professor begins to suspect that a student's accidental death was tied to his refusal to take part in a traditional "hazing" and was no acci...

Two Tickets to Broadway
1951
as Showgirl (uncredited)
A young woman (Janet Leigh) leaves her small hometown in Vermont and travels to New York City with hopes of becoming a Broadway star.
The Screen Writer
1950
as Young Actress (uncredited)
This short film focuses on the job of the Hollywood screenwriter.

When Willie Comes Marching Home
1950
as Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)
When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home ...