Vera Miles
Nacimiento : 1929-08-23, Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
Historia
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.
Herself (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 the movies stirred in them.
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 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 killed somebody. So Tom Beckwith tries to help her by observing her, combining his professional abilities as an ex-cop and his recently gained knowledge of psychology.
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 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 Klinghoffer.
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.
Joan Caper
La noche que Ed descubre que su mujer le es infiel, sale a dar un paseo y en el aparcamiento del aeropuerto tropieza con Diana, una joven a la que persiguen unos tipos armados. A partir de ese momento, no habrá lugar seguro para la pareja, que ni siquiera podrá recurrir a la policía.
Frances Fairchild
Kelly es una joven universitaria con una pesadilla recurrente en la que ve arder a un desconocido. Al mismo tiempo ella y sus compañeras serán presas de un sanguinario psicópata.
Kate Keller
Marian Koonan
A una joven que ha resultado herida de gravedad en un accidente se le practica un transplante del cerebro, que perteneció a una mujer asesinada. Cuando se recupera, empieza a ser perseguida por el asesino.
Lila Crane Loomis
Después de veintidós años encerrado en un psiquiátrico y, aparentemente curado, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) queda en libertad pese a las protestas de Lila, la hermana de Marion Crane (Vera Miles) y viuda de Sam Loomis, el antiguo novio de su hermana. Acompañado por su psiquiatra, el doctor Raymond, Norman regresa al motel Bates y se hace cargo de él. Tras hacer amistad con una joven, empiezan a ocurrir hechos extraños y crímenes inexplicables...
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, resulting in a death that might have been faked.
Cat
Cuando en 1980 un estudiante de la Universidad de Pensylvania desaparece misteriosamente, se descubre que pertenecía a un grupo de estudiantes obsesionados por un juego fantástico: "Mazes and Monsters". Juntos habían creado un mundo de terrores ficticios y tesoros deslumbrantes capaz de llenarlos de satisfacción, pero dieron un paso más allá de lo permitido y convirtieron el juego en realidad.
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, while Gep's younger brother, Phil, a bank vice president, tries to separate himself from the family's business.
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 drilling magnate, his tool-pusher and a young roughneck associate, who endeavor to save the ranching empire by trying to bring in a methane gas well.
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 struggle to get to safety despite her injuries, below-freezing temperatures and rough, and at times impassable, terrain.
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 others around him start to think it's possible.
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 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 class outing (Donna Mills), a country doctor (Lloyd Nolan), a couple (Patty Duke Astin and Alex Cord) whose shaky marriage is healed when battling the blaze brings out their better natures, and escaping convicts (Neville Brand and Erik Estrada) who use the conflagration to cover their tracks. Like Allen’s crowd-pleasers The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, Fire sizzles with suspense and excitement. Turn up the heat!
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 sophomore. Wayne is a talented singer and guitarist who dreams of country music stardom. Karen, newly separated from her husband, has recently rejoined the family with her own young son Tommy, who misses his father. This was a pilot film for a proposed television series that was not picked up.
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 that the boys are innocent and, against all advice from his friends and family, sets them free, which turns the entire community against him.
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 California's Interstate 5 over 4th of July weekend.
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.
Henrietta MacAvoy
Lincoln Costain se ha salvado de ahogarse gracias a un niño de doce años en la isla de Kauai. A medida que ayuda a la madre viuda del muchacho, también encontrará complicaciones con el ganado.
Eleanor Strom
A private detective goes after the kidnappers of his ex-girlfriend's son and becomes involved in a series of murders.
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 has also developed a psychotic obsession with her and may be out to kill her.
Ellen Staffo
A group of skiers are trapped inside a runaway train hurtling down a mountainside.
Doris
Un cabo está acusado de deserción por ayudar a los indios. En su huida encuentra a un muchacho indio, y juntos emprenden el camino montados en un camello.
Andrea Glenn
Un corredor de automóviles ha tenido visiones extrasensoriales. Una investigadora se interesa por el caso y, tras estudiarlo, llega a la conclusión de que el hombre puede predecir los desastres antes que se cumplan.
Molly Parker
Sam Elliot es John Lawler, un ladrón de bancos mujeriego, que se encuentra frente a la soga del verdugo. Molly (Vera Miles), la esposa maltratada de un sheriff solitario, se enamora de John y juntos intentan escapar a las áridas tierras de Nuevo México...
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 bad economy, he watches his bills pile up, his wife forced to go back to work and his marriage start to break up.
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 in the apartment of a slain state official.
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 mysterious howling at night.
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.
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 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 picaresque plotline brings the family into contact with a variety of colorful characters. The producers of In Search of America never declared outright that the made-for-TV film was intended as a series pilot, but it ends on an ambiguous note with plenty of loose plot ends. In Search of America was first telecast March 23, 1971.
Kate Tanner
Una familia abandona la vida urbanita para entrar en posesión de un rancho en Wyoming.
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 Laura Ring, the secretary of a shipping company.
Madelyn Buckman
Chance Buckman dirige un prestigioso equipo internacional especializado en la extinción de incendios en pozos petrolíferos. Su peligrosa profesión ha puesto en un brete su matrimonio con Madelyn. Su ayudante Greg se enamora de su hija Tish, que comparte los temores de su madre respecto a un trabajo tan arriesgado. (FILMAFFINITY)
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 conquering Japanese forces.
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 of a wealthy young playboy, he seeks the truth about the murder. Convinced the playboy is guilty, he enlists the help of his friend Kittibelle, who runs an alcohol abuse treatment center. Sam runs into a wall of silence obviously built by hush money and islanders fearful of reprisals from the rich and powerful family. The determined dad fights to uncover the information that will land the murderer in jail as he avenges the death of his daughter.
Ann Ryker
En la guerra de Corea, un sargento norteamericano (Lee Marvin) realiza un acto heroico, que se vuelve contra el, y acaba encarcelado por traición, y condenado a la horca. Su mujer (Vera Miles) y su abogado (Bradford Dillman), luchan por demostrar el error que el ejército está punto de cometer.
Ellen Wedloe
The Story of a boy and his bear.
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.
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 process before it falls into the hands of the THRUSH.
Vida Downey
Un músico de jazz acepta trabajar en el almacén del pequeño pueblo en el que se instala. Cuando comprueba que nadie se ocupa de la educación de los niños, decide formar un grupo de boy scouts. Su idea, al principio, es recibida con mucho recelo, pero poco a poco consigue que los muchachos se entusiasmen con el proyecto.
Lydia (Liddy) Calloway
Cam Calloway y su familia viven en una zona densamente arbolada en Nueva Inglaterra. Sueñan con construir un santuario para los gansos que vuelan sobre la zona cada año, y trazan varios planes para comprar un lago cercano. Sin embargo, el infortunio hará que sea un sueño difícil de llevar a cabo.
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 after his money.
Kassia Paine
After two women poison to death the blackmailer who has been tormenting them, they wind up at the house of a blind man whose eccentric guest believes he has built a working time machine. Soon, the blackmailer is back to torment them all.
Dorothy Williams
Un tigre se escapa del camión de un circo a su paso por un pequeño pueblo y se esconde en los bosques de los alrededores. Esto provoca el pánico en la localidad y todo el mundo quiere al animal muerto de inmediato, a excepción de la hija del sheriff. Ella quiere capturar al tigre y llevarlo a un zoológico, salvando así la vida del tigre.
Hallie Stoddard
Un anciano senador del Congreso de los Estados Unidos, Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart), relata a un periodista la verdadera historia de por qué ha viajado junto a su mujer Hallie (Vera Miles) para acudir al funeral de un viejo amigo, Tom Doniphon (John Wayne). Todo comenzó muchos años atrás, cuando Ransom era un joven abogado del este que llegó en diligencia a Shinbone, un pequeño pueblo del Oeste, para ejercer la abogacía e imponer la ley. Poco antes de llegar a su destino, es atracado y golpeado brutalmente por el temido pistolero Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin).
Liz Saxon
Rae Smith (Susan Hayward), una joven diseñadora de moda deseosa de triunfar en su profesión, mantiene una relación con Paul Saxon (John Gavin), un joven militar. Cuando Saxon se reincorpora a la vida civil como heredero de una cadena de almacenes, tiene que ayudar a Rae a librarse de un individuo que la acosa.
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 place as the scheme unfolds while also fighting corruption in the city government and police department.
Lila Crane
Una joven secretaria, tras cometer un robo, se marcha de la ciudad y conduce durante horas, parando para descansar en un pequeño motel de carretera regentado por un joven llamado Norman. Todo parece normal y tranquilo en el apartado motel y en la casa de al lado en la que viven Norman y su madre pero, mientras está en la ducha, la joven es asesinada salvajemente a cuchilladas.
Daniza
Cinco mujeres de un pueblecito yugoslavo son acusadas de haber mantenido relaciones con un sargento alemán durante la ocupación nazi. Los partisanos las someten a una humillación pública. A pesar de que después se unen a ellos en su lucha contra las tropas alemanas, siguen siendo despreciadas. ¿Fueron realmente las amantes del sargento nazi? ¿Por qué traicionaron a su patria? ¿Podrán alguna vez librarse de semejante estigma?
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 will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
Lucy Ann Hardesty
Jim Hardesty es un joven abogado que trabaja para el FBI, en un departamento que no tiene un gran futuro; por eso, su novia Luzy le pide que deje ese empleo. Él le promete que dimitirá en cuanto tome posesión de su cargo el nuevo director, John Edgar Hoover. Pero, cuando éste le pide a Jim que colabore con él, entonces tendrá razones para no abandonar.
Lena Anderson
A World War II evacuee (Van Johnson) returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
Betty Compton
Recreación cinematográfica de la vida de James J. Walker (Bob Hope), que a finales de los años 20 se convierte en el controvertido alcalde de Nueva York, conocido por sus chistes y bromas y por la imparable corrupción durante su mandato. Además provocó un gran escándalo por su relación con Betty Compton (Vera Miles).
Rose Balestrero
Manny es un músico de jazz que vive apaciblemente en Nueva York con su esposa Rose y sus dos hijos pequeños. En una aseguradora, una empleada lo confunde con un ladrón que había robado allí unos días antes y lo denuncia a la policía. Comienza entonces para él una angustiosa pesadilla: es detenido y acusado de una serie de hurtos perpetrados en el barrio. Lo terrible es que todos los testigos y las pruebas caligráficas corroboran su culpabilidad. Tras salir bajo fianza, intentará demostrar su inocencia. Mientras tanto, su esposa sufre una aguda crisis nerviosa y es internada en un psiquiátrico.
Virginia Hanson
Milly (Joan Crawford) es una mujer que dejó pasar la juventud entregada al cuidado de su padre. Un día, asiste a un concierto y se enamora de Burt (Cliff Robertson), un hombre bastante más joven que ella. Pocos meses después de casarse, Milly recibe la visita de Virginia (Vera Miles), la antigua mujer de Burt.
Jean Lennox
Phillip Hanon (Van Johnson), un escritor norteamericano ciego que vive en Londres, escucha por casualidad una conversación sobre un secuestro. Después de acudir en vano a la policía, decide encargarse personalmente de la investigación.
Laurie Jorgensen
Texas. En 1868, tres años después de la guerra de Secesión, Ethan Edwards, un hombre solitario, vuelve derrotado a su hogar. La persecución de los comanches que han raptado a una de sus sobrinas se convertirá en un modo de vida para él y para Martin, un muchacho mestizo adoptado por su familia.
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 nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
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 the man, Robert Cosick, down from his threatening perch and in the process learns the reasons for the Robert's suicide attempt.
Laurie McCoy
Wyatt Earp, antiguo cazador de búfalos y aventurero, llega a Wichita (Kansas), un pueblo ganadero en el que impera la ley del más fuerte. Su habilidad con el revólver le convierte en el candidato perfecto para el puesto de sheriff, pero rechaza el empleo. Sin embargo, las circunstancias hacen que se sienta moralmente obligado a imponer la ley y el orden en la caótica ciudad. (FILMAFFINITY)
Jill Hardy
Unos cazadores que se hacen pasar por fotógrafos se adentran en Sukulu, territorio donde los animales son sagrados.
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 the stable siren. The girl finally rehabilitates the horse then enters it in a big race.
Girl (uncredited)
Después de la muerte de su padre y la pérdida de su fortuna, Selina trabaja en una escuela de enseñanza en la comunidad holandesa de New Holland. Ella se queda con las piscinas y enseña al joven piano Roelf. Él está enamorado de ella, pero es con Pervus con quien se casa. Dirk es su único hijo. Después de unos años, Pervus muere. Con un niño pequeño y solo en la granja, Selina comienza su búsqueda para cultivar vegetales de alta calidad. Ella quiere más para Dirk y guía su vida hasta que él se gradúe de la universidad como arquitecto. A medida que su etiqueta de verduras prospera, ella ve a Paula controlar la vida de Dirk mientras él se aleja de la creación y entra en ventas, que no es a donde él quiere ir.
Jennie McKeever
Una expedición de rescate, formada por hombres inexpertos, debe liberar a dos mujeres blancas que han sido secuestradas por los indios cheyenne. (FILMAFFINITY)
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.
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 accident.
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.
Young Actress (uncredited)
This short film focuses on the job of the Hollywood screenwriter.
Laughing Sergeant's Date (uncredited)
Bill Kluggs es un hombre de un pequeño pueblo americano, que se alista en el ejército para convertirse en un héroe. Pero sus superiores deciden mantenerlo alejado del frente, dedicándolo a tareas de entrenamiento. Pronto empezará a sentirse frustrado... hasta el día en que le destinan a una misión secreta
