Vera Miles
Рождение : 1929-08-23, Boise City, Oklahoma, USA
История
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
Молодая врач — психолог нанимает телохранителя со странной просьбой — проследить за ней и снять на пленку все ее передвижения. Завеса загадочности пропадает, когда он узнает о том, что его подопечная страдает синдромом раздвоения личности и во время одного из приступов, возможно, совершила убийство. Теперь же девушка, заручившись поддержкой своего охранника, должна раскрыть тайну убийства и найти настоящего преступника…
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
Когда два незнакомца оказываются впутанными в международную интригу в самом сердце ночи в Лос-Анджелесе, может произойти все что угодно…. И происходит. Эд Оркин страдает от бессонницы, его обманывает жена, и у него скучная работа. Его шансы на что-нибудь веселенькое выглядели безнадежными, пока загадочная блондинка по имени Дайяна не свалилась на капот его автомобиля. И в этот момент пришла очередь Эдда пережить приключение и любовный роман, потому что Дайна вовлекает его в веселую и убийственную охоту, добычей в которой станут или доллары, или смерть.
Frances Fairchild
Привлекательную молодую девушку Келли Фэйрчайлд преследует один и тот же сон. Не случайно темой ее курсовой работы стали «Ночные кошмары». Молодой преподаватель психологии Питер Адамс хочет помочь девушке: он погружает Келли в состояние гипноза, и тут выясняется такое...
Kate Keller
Marian Koonan
После автокатастрофы Кайли находится в коме в течение многих месяцев. Доктора решают провести новую операцию: чтобы вернуть сознание, они стимулируют ее мозг визуальными образами только что умершей женщины. Операция проходит успешно, и Кайли возвращается к жизни. Однако она живет в новой реальности: ей кажется, что она была убита.
Lila Crane Loomis
Прошло 22 года, и Норман Бэйтс, наконец, вернулся домой. Все это мучительно долгое время герой провел в заключении, в доме для душевнобольных. Но теперь, по закону штата Калифорния, Норман признан вменяемым и выпущен на свободу. Путь героя лежит к жуткому дому на холме, который Норман называл своим домом, своим… и мамы. Но чей страшный силуэт снова маячит в окне? Спустя два десятилетия зло снова проснулось и ознаменовало свое пробуждение грудой окровавленных трупов!
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
Робби становится участником захватывающей игры. Незаметно для себя он настолько увлекается ею, что не может отличить, где вымысел, а где реальность. Такой поворот событий чуть было ни стоил Робби жизни.
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
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.
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
An Army deserter (James Garner) flees by camel across the desert with a white boy (Clay O'Brien) raised by Indians.
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 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 into a world of revenge and murder from beyond the grave. Kovack must tap into his newfound power to conquer the evil forces at work.
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 handsome young man named Johnny, plays on Molly's sympathy and convinces her to help him escape. Molly then accompanies Johnny on his cross-country flight but soon learns he's simply been using her. Molly makes the best of the situation, however, and by the time the sheriff's posse catches up with them, Molly shows that she's learned how to assert herself.
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
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 the newcomers as "squatters" on his land, and will stop at nothing – including murder – to drive them out.
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
Чэнс Бакмен, лидер пожарной команды, специализирующейся на тушении наиболее опасных возгораний на нефтяных месторождениях, получает государственный контракт на ликвидацию пожаров в зоне военных действий.
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
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 sentenced to death but his attorney believes Ryker's innocent and asks for a new trial.
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
В Лондоне кто-то отлавливает кошек, и старушки серьезно тревожатся за своих пушистых питомцев. Кроме того, исчезает известный ученый доктор Лэнсор, а затем вновь возвращается домой… но помолодевший на 30 лет. Полиция уверена: эти события связаны. И шпион Курякин отправляется в Лондон, а его коллега Наполеон — в Париж, где дочь доктора Лэнсора работает фотомоделью.
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 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 lawyer being put on the back burner, until he realizes that his life has been fulfilled helping the youth of the small town.
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 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 trapping venture to get the money, but the bottom falls out of the fur market. He uses the little money they get for a down payment on the lake, thereby losing their house when he can't make the mortgage payment. They move to the lake, where their friends help them build a cabin. A salesman stops in town, and tries to get the people to sell their land for a tourist venture; Cam is outraged at his tactics and takes desperate measures after he himself is tricked.
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
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 starts a nationwide campaign among children to raise the money to buy the tiger from the circus, but first, she, her father and an Indian tiger trainer must find the tiger before the National Guard do, who have orders to kill it on sight.
Hallie Stoddard
Сенатор Рэйнс Стоддард возвращается в город Шинбон на Диком Западе, чтобы участвовать в похоронах своего друга, Тома Донифона. Журналисту, который задается вопросом, что сенатор делает в этом захолустном городишке, он рассказывает историю о том, как начиналась его карьера — карьера человека, который застрелил Либерти Вэланса.
Liz Saxon
Амбициозная, но не очень сговорчивая, Рэй Смит встречает красивого моряка Пола Сэксона, возвращающегося с войны и случайно проезжающего через Линкольн, штат Небраска. Между ними проскакивают искорки любви, но в силу обстоятельств, Пол вынужден покинуть её и немедленно уехать из города. Позже Рэй узнаёт, что Сэксон женат. Будучи преисполнена решимости сделать карьеру модельера, Рэй переезжает в Нью-Йорк, где добивается большого успеха. Однажды она случайно вновь встречается с Полом, который всё ещё пытается добиться её благосклонности. Пытаясь убежать от него, Рэй переезжает в Рим, где открывает новый магазин. Но и здесь судьба вновь сводит её с Полом. Они начинают тайно встречаться. Пол принимает решение начать бракоразводный процес со своей сварливой и много пьющей женой Лиз. Но та наотрез отказывается дать ему развод.
Angela Walsh
Идеалистический и честный детектив Мэтт Гауэр охотится за бандитами, которым удалось избежать наказания, и борется с коррупцией среди городских чиновников и продажных полицейских.
Lila Crane
Мэрион Крэйн недовольна романом с разведённым мужчиной, который уделяет ей внимание только наездами. Поэтому девушка крадёт на работе крупную сумму и в спешке бежит из города. В мотеле, где она остановилась на ночь, ей приходится столкнуться с его молодым владельцем — очень странным молодым человеком.
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 fend for themselves.
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
A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
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
The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s.
Rose Balestrero
Генри Фонда играет музыканта Мэнни Балестреро, человека, переполненного скрытой яростью из-за своего ошибочного ареста. Вера Майлз, в роли его подавленной горем жены Роуз, которую суровые испытания доводят до сумасшествия.
Virginia Hanson
Милли, нелепая непривлекательная женщина, знакомится с тихим и скромным Бертом Хэнсоном. Она жаждет любви, хватается за нее руками и ногами, а получает в результате шизофреника.
Jean Lennox
Слепой писатель Филипп Хеннон удивлен разговорами, в которых его обвиняют в похищении людей и убийствах. На самом деле это происки полиции, которая не верит его показаниям и хочет вывести писателя из себя. Хеннон начинает собственное расследование вместе со своей невестой и секретарем. Преступник хочет его убить, и пробирается в его дом, но слепой писатель делает в комнате полную темноту, чтобы уровнять шансы. В конце концов, Хеннон избавляется от убийцы и может спокойно жениться на своей невесте…
Laurie Jorgensen
Джон Уэйн играет бывшего солдата армии конфедерации Итана Эдвардса, который больше верит пулям, чем словам. Он разыскивает свою племянницу, похищенную команчами, которые убили всю его семью. Ему не страшны ни голод, ни жажда, ни одиночество. За время своих отчаянных пятилетних поисков Итан находит то, что найти не ожидал: свою собственную человечность.
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
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 candidate for Marshal, but he refuses the job until he feels morally obligated to bring law and order to this wild town.
Jill Hardy
Hunters trespass into Sukulu country, where animals are sacred, posing as photographers.
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)
After the death of her father and the loss of his fortune, Selina takes a job teaching school in the Dutch community of New Holland. She stays with the Pools and teaches young Roelf piano. He has a crush on her, but it is Pervus she marries. Dirk is their only child. After a few years Pervus dies. With a young child and only the farm, Selina begins her quest to grow high quality vegetables. She wants more for Dirk and guides his life until he graduates from college as an architect. As her vegetable label prospers, she sees Paula control Dirk's life as he moves away from creating and into sales, which is not where he wants to go.
Jennie McKeever
На территории Колорадо кавалерия в форте Беллоуз просит Майлза Арчера помочь спасти двух белых женщин, похищенных шайеннами, и обеспечить безопасность бригад строителей железной дороги.
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)
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 town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.
