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Vera Miles

1929 - Today

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Vera June Miles (née Ralston; born August 23, 1929) is an American retired actress, best known for roles in the John Ford directed, John Wayne starring Westerns The Searchers (1956) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) as well as for playing Lila Crane in the Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho, later reprising the role in its sequel, Psycho II. Other films in which she appeared include Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955), The Searchers (1956), The Wrong Man (1956), A Touch of Larceny (1959), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Follow Me, Boys! (1966), Hellfighters (1968), Sergeant Ryker (1968), and Molly and Lawless John (1972). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vera Miles has received more than 4,030,287 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Vera Miles is the 656th most popular actor (up from 672nd in 2019), the 1,217th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,228th in 2019) and the 324th most popular American Actor.

Vera Miles is most famous for her role in the Alfred Hitchcock film, "The Wrong Man."

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  • 4.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Vera Miles ranks 656 out of 9,996Before her are Bruce Dern, Max Linder, Jeroen Krabbé, Katharina Schratt, Richard E. Grant, and Rex Harrison. After her are Rita Moreno, James Spader, Jackie Coogan, Uma Thurman, Louis Jourdan, and Wesley Snipes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Vera Miles ranks 78Before her are Lennart Johansson, Claes Oldenburg, Jean-Joseph Sanfourche, Alfred Moisiu, Nikolai Ryzhkov, and Ágnes Heller. After her are Chadli Bendjedid, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Gordon Moore, Hebe Camargo, Ed Asner, and Andriyan Nikolayev.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Vera Miles ranks 1,217 out of 18,182Before her are Arthur Kornberg (1918), Mike Markkula (1942), Mary Jackson (1921), Rodney King (1965), John Gotti (1940), and Nicholas Ray (1911). After her are Will Durant (1885), Michael Moore (1954), William Randolph Hearst (1863), Richard Donner (1930), Lawrence Klein (1920), and James Spader (1960).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Vera Miles ranks 324Before her are Andrew Garfield (1983), Morgan Fairchild (1950), Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967), J. K. Simmons (1955), Idina Menzel (1971), and Bruce Dern (1936). After her are James Spader (1960), Jackie Coogan (1914), Uma Thurman (1970), Wesley Snipes (1962), Shia LaBeouf (1986), and Geena Davis (1956).

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