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Vera Miles is a Actor American born on 23 august 1929 at Boise City (USA)
Vera Miles (born August 23, 1929) is an American actress who worked closely with Alfred Hitchcock, most notably as Lila Crane in the classic masterpiece Psycho, reprising the role in the 1983 sequel, Psycho II. Her other popular films include The Wrong Man, The Searchers, Follow Me Boys! and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
Miles currently resides in California, refusing to grant interviews or make public appearances. Her grandson, actor Jordan Essoe, however, met with actress Jessica Biel in 2012 in preparation for Biel's portrayal of Miles in the film Hitchcock.
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Miles has been married three times. Her first husband was Bob Miles. They were married from 1948 until 1954, and had two daughters, Debra and Kelley. Her second husband was Gordon Scott. They were married from 1956 until 1959, and had one son, Michael. Her third husband was actor Keith Larsen. They were married from 1960 until 1971, and had one son, Erik.Miles currently resides in California, refusing to grant interviews or make public appearances. Her grandson, actor Jordan Essoe, however, met with actress Jessica Biel in 2012 in preparation for Biel's portrayal of Miles in the film Hitchcock.
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The Psycho Legacy (2010)
, 1h27Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Horror
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Serial killer films, Documentary films about films
Actors Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Diana Scarwid, Vera Miles, Tom Holland, Alfred Hitchcock
Roles Self (archive footage)
Rating68%
Separate Lives (1995)
, 1h42Directed by David Madden
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors James Belushi, Linda Hamilton, Vera Miles, Elisabeth Moss, Joshua Malina, Mark Lindsay Chapman
Roles Dr. Ruth Goldin
Rating49%
Tom Beckwith est un ancien policier père d'une petite fille Ronny, qui a démissionné après l'assassinat de Tina sa femme. Alors qu'il cherche une réorientation, il décide de suivre les cours de Lauren Porter, une psychiatre. Lorsque le film commence, une amie de celle-ci a été assassinée. Lauren demande à Tom de le prendre en filature car elle souffre de crises d'amnésie récurrentes depuis que sa mère a tué son beau-père. Le premier soir, Tom se rend en boîte de nuit afin de mieux la surveiller mais il comprend très rapidement que Lauren a un alter-égo, Léna. Après que les propriétaires du club l'aient frappé, il envisage dans un premier temps de renoncer à son enquête mais ses sentiments envers Lauren le font changer d'avis. Il retrouve le propriétaire et lui fait subir un interrogatoire musclé. Beaucoup plus tard, Tom est assez confronté entre les deux vies de Lauren et comprend que la seule solution pour qu'elle guérisse serait de la ramener sur les lieux du terrible accident. Lauren et Tom découvrent que le père de Lauren est le véritable assassin, et Tom parvient à le mettre hors d'état de nuire. Tom finit par réintégrer la police.
24 Hour Psycho (1993)
, 24hDirected by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Janet Leigh
Roles Lila Crane (archive footage)
Rating56%
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Films about hijackings
Actors Karl Malden, Lee Grant, E. G. Marshall, Vera Miles, Barry Otto, Christina Pickles
Roles Sophie Kubacki
Rating60%
Into the Night (1985)
, 1h55Directed by John Landis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, Richard Farnsworth, Dan Aykroyd, David Bowie, David Cronenberg
Roles Joan Caper
Rating64%
Upon discovering that his wife is having an affair, depressed insomniac Ed Okin (Jeff Goldblum) drives to LAX on his friend Herb's (Dan Aykroyd) suggestion. There he is surprised by a beautiful jewel smuggler, Diana (Michelle Pfeiffer), who lands on his car and begs him to drive her away from four Iranians who are chasing her. She persuades him to drive her to various locations, and he becomes embroiled in her predicament. After becoming increasingly exasperated with her demands, he discovers that Diana has smuggled priceless emeralds from the Shah of Iran's treasury into the country, and is being pursued by various assorted assailants, including the aforementioned agents of a criminal Iranian expatriate and a British hitman (David Bowie).
The Initiation (1984)
, 1h37Directed by Peter Crane
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about families, Serial killer films
Actors Vera Miles, Clu Gulager, Daphne Zuniga, James Read, Hunter Tylo, Robert Dowdell
Roles Frances Fairchild
Rating56%
Kelly Fairchild (Daphne Zuniga) is a university student who has suffered from a recurring nightmare in which a strange man is burning to death inside her childhood home. Adding to her stress, Kelly is also about to take part in her sorority's initiation ritual, which entails her and a group of pledges breaking into her wealthy father's multi-level department store after hours. Megan, the head of the sorority, comes up with the idea in hopes of getting Kelly into trouble, out of jealousy. Kelly, her friend Marcia (Marilyn Kagan), and roommate Alison (Hunter Tylo) are the three main pledges.
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
, 1h24Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Documentary, Anthology film, Horror
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about films
Actors Donald Pleasence, Nancy Allen, Bud Abbott, Michael Ironside, Fred Asparagus, Brooke Adams
Rating62%
Director Andrew J. Kuehn has excerpted brief segments of terror and suspense in a wide variety of suspenseful (including humorously so, ex. Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, Saturday the 14th) films and strung them together with added commentary, as well as some enacted narrative, to create a compilation of fright-inducing effects. Halloween actor Donald Pleasence and Dressed to Kill star Nancy Allen provide the commentary on topics such as "sex and terror" (Dressed to Kill, Klute, Ms. 45, The Seduction, When a Stranger Calls), loathsome villains (Dracula, Frankenstein, Friday the 13 1 and/or 2, Halloween I and II, Marathon Man, Nighthawks, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Touch of Evil, Vice Squad, Wait Until Dark, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?), "natural terror" (Alligator, The Birds, Frogs, Jaws 1 and 2, Nightwing) and the occult (An American Werewolf in London, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, The Omen, Carrie, The Shining). In one segment of the anthology, legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock presents his concepts of how to create suspense in a clip from Alfred Hitchcock: Men Who Made The Movies.
Psycho II (1983)
, 1h53Directed by Richard Franklin
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Robert Loggia, Meg Tilly, Dennis Franz, Hugh Gillin
Roles Lila Loomis
Rating65%
Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) is released from a mental institution after spending 22 years in confinement. Lila Loomis (Vera Miles), sister of Marion Crane, vehemently protests with a petition that she has been circulating with signatures of 743 people, including the relatives of the seven people Norman killed prior to his incarceration, but her plea is dismissed. Norman is taken to his old home behind the Bates Motel by Dr. Bill Raymond (Robert Loggia), who assures him everything will be fine.
Mazes and Monsters (1982)
, 1h40Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy
Actors Tom Hanks, Wendy Crewson, David Wallace, Chris Makepeace, Lloyd Bochner, Peter Donat
Roles Cat
Rating41%
The film opens with a scene that is repeated later in the film in which a reporter meets with police searching a cavern. He is told a Mazes and Monsters game got out of hand.
Fire! (1977)
, 1h40Directed by Earl Bellamy
Origin USA
Genres Disaster, Action
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Ernest Borgnine, Vera Miles, Patty Duke, Alex Cord, Donna Mills, Lloyd Nolan
Roles Martha Wagner
Rating52%
Afin de couvrir son évasion, un criminel met le feu à quelques arbres sur une colline, mais le vent disperse les flammes et la situation devient critique. Le feu menace une ville entière.
Run for the Roses (1977)
Directed by Henry Levin
Genres Drama
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Horse sports in film
Actors Vera Miles, Stuart Whitman, Henry Brandon, Lisa Eilbacher, Terry Wilson, Theodore Wilson
Roles Clarissa Stewart
Rating55%
A young boy named Juanito Hernandez befriends and nurses back to health a horse that undergoes an operation. When the horse recovers, owner Clarissa Stewart and her trainer, Charlie, come to believe Juanito's hunch that the recovered horse now has a good chance to win the Kentucky Derby.
Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976)
, 1h40Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Robert Conrad, Vera Miles, Buddy Ebsen, Herb Edelman, David Groh, Scott Jacoby
Roles Erica
Rating59%
The film is set on Interstate 5 in California on the day of July 4, 24 hours before the summer vacation will officially commence. From the beginning, California Highway Patrol sergeant Sam Marcum (Robert Conrad) announces in a voice-over that a 39 car smash-up will be the cause of 62 injured people and fourteen deaths. A selection of the people involved are followed up to 48 hours preceding the accident. Other than Sam, who is chasing the murderer of his colleague on the highway, the film focuses on the elderly couple Al and June Pearson (Buddy Ebsen and Harriet Nelson), who are setting out to a beach resort to forget the fact that June is suffering from a terminal disease. Meanwhile, a woman named Erica (Vera Miles) is troubled by a gang of bikers including rebellious Burnsey (Sue Lyon), when she is rescued by young Dale (David Groh). In other sub-plots, Lee Bassett (Scott Jacoby) becomes a murder suspect when he is forced to pick up a young couple on the run, Penny and Pete (Bonnie Ebsen and George O'Hanlon, Jr.). Laureen (Donna Mills), a nurse with feelings for Sam, struggles with doubts of marrying him. Barbara Hutton (Sian Barbara Allen), a young mother, is panicked when she finds her husband Jimmy (Tommy Lee Jones), an officer, shot. All these stories come together when a massive car crash changes their lives for good.
State Fair (1975)
Directed by David Lowell Rich
Genres Drama
Actors Vera Miles, Mitch Vogel, Julie Cobb, Linda Purl, Jack Garner, Virginia Gregg
Roles Melissa Bryant
Rating46%
The Castaway Cowboy (1974)
, 1h31Directed by Vincent McEveety, Christopher Hibler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Western
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Children's films
Actors James Garner, Vera Miles, Eric Shea, Robert Culp, Manu Tupou, Gregory Sierra
Roles Henrietta MacAvoy
Rating58%
Texas cowboy, Lincoln Costain (James Garner), gets "shanghaied" in San Francisco, then jumps ship and washes ashore on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, right into the arms of widow Henrietta MacAvoy (Vera Miles) and her son (Eric Shea) who are struggling to make a living as farmers. A lot of wild cattle often trample their crops, so Costain gets the idea to start cattle ranching instead. The Hawaiian farm hands don't readily take to the American cowboy culture, and Calvin Bryson (Robert Culp), is a banker with eyes to grab Henrietta's land and maybe Henrietta herself.
Runaway! (1973)
, 1h13Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Ben Johnson, Ben Murphy, Ed Nelson, Darlene Carr, Lee Montgomery, Martin Milner
Roles Ellen Staffo
Rating58%
After departing the train station at a ski facility, a passenger train begins descending a long downhill grade, only to discover that the brakes don't work, apparently frozen while at the mountain station. The train continues to gain speed, and one brakeman is lost trying to kick the frozen moisture off one section of brakes. It is anticipated that the train will derail at a sharp curve once it reaches level ground, and emergency crews stand by there. The train survives the curve and continues on toward the terminal station, where the tracks abruptly end.