Vera Miles
Vera Miles ( born August 23, 1930 in Boise City, Oklahoma as Vera June Ralston ) is an American actress.
Life
Miles grew up in Kansas. They made the jump to Hollywood about the Miss Kansas - election in 1948. She had initially a film contract with Republic Pictures, where, however, was with Vera Ralston an actress of the same name under contract. Then she took as a stage name the name of her then husband, the stuntman Bob Miles on. Her film career was interrupted by the birth of two children. During the filming of Tarzan and the black demon she met the actor Gordon Scott know what she divorced, and in 1956 Scott 's second marriage. After she had until then only had minor roles in films rather insignificant, it occupied John Ford 1956 for the female lead in his western The Searchers. After Grace Kelly was no longer available for the film, Miles was in Alfred Hitchcock under contract, who recognized her talent when she played the female lead in the first episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In 1956 she had the female lead in Hitchcock's The Wrong Man, 1960, she played the role of Lila Crane in Psycho Thriller. Hitchcock had Miles 1958 already provided fixed for Vertigo, this was prevented by a pregnancy. In 1960 she got a divorce from Scott and married in the same year, the actor Keith Larsen. In the 1960s and 1970s she starred in a series of Walt Disney films. In addition, she appeared on one of a series of pilot films of different television series, including The Fugitive, The Outer Limits, I Spy, Cannon and Owen Marshall - trial lawyers.
In 1982, she starred in the sequel Psycho II once again the role of Lila Crane. Your last film appearance was in 1995 Separate Lives - Deadly double life on the side of James Belushi, after she retired into private life. Miles is married in fourth marriage with the Oscar-nominated sound engineer Bob Jones.