Vera June Miles (née Ralston, born August 23, 1929 in Boise City, Oklahoma) is an American actress best known for her work with John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock, most notably as Lila Crane in the classic 1960 film Psycho, reprising the role in the 1983 sequel Psycho II. She also appeared in classic episodes of The Twilight Zone (1959) and The Outer Limits (1963).
Miles retired from the industry in The '90s, and has granted no interviews or made any public appearances ever since, though she is known to occasionally respond to fan mail or requests for autographs. With the death of Hitchcock's daughter Patricia in 2021, she is the last surviving credited member of the cast of Psycho.
Works of her with pages on TV Tropes:
- The Charge at Feather River (1953)
- The Searchers (1956)
- The Wrong Man (1956)
- The Twilight Zone (1960, episode "Mirror Image")
- Five Branded Women (1960)
- Psycho (1960)
- Psycho II (1983)
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
- The Outer Limits (1964, episode "The Forms of Things Unknown")
- Follow Me, Boys! (1966)
- Hellfighters (1968)
- Kona Coast (1968)
- Columbo (1973, episode "Lovely but Lethal")
- The Initiation (1984)
- Into the Night (1985)
Vera Miles in fiction:
- She is portrayed in the film Hitchcock, about the making of Psycho, by Jessica Biel.
