Vera Miles — Actor (40)
Sergeant Ryker (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Sergeant Ryker
director: Buzz Kulik actor: Lee Marvin / Bradford Dillman
other title: Sergent Ryker / Hängt den Verräter
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.
A Touch of Larceny (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
A Touch of Larceny
director: Guy Hamilton actor: James Mason / George Sanders
other title: Quasi una truffa / Quase Um Criminoso
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.
And I Alone Survived (1978) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
And I Alone Survived
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.
Fire! (1977) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Fire!
director: Earl Bellamy actor: Ernest Borgnine / Vera Miles
other title: Il colosso di fuoco / Horizont in Flammen
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!
Travis McGee (1983) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Travis McGee
director: Andrew V. McLaglen actor: Sam Elliott / Gene Evans
other title: Il mare vuoto
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.
Wichita (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Wichita
director: Jacques Tourneur actor: Joel McCrea / Vera Miles
other title: Un Jeu risqué / Wichita, ciudad infernal
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.
The Hanged Man (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Hanged Man
director: Don Siegel actor: Robert Culp / Edmond O'Brien
other title: All'ombra del ricatto / Le Prix d'un meurtre
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.
23 Paces to Baker Street (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
23 Paces to Baker Street
director: Henry Hathaway actor: Van Johnson / Vera Miles
other title: 23 passi dal delitto / Treogtyve skridt til Baker Street
Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler, and his ex fiancée, attempt to track down the crooks.
Back Street (1961) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Back Street
director: David Miller actor: Susan Hayward / John Gavin
other title: Il sentiero degli amanti / Endstation Paris
Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's a definite spark between them but circumstances intervene and he leaves town without her. Later she learns he's married. Determined to make it as a fashion designer, Rae moves to New York and becomes a great success. One day she happens to meet Paul again and again there's that spark but he's still married so, as a form of escape, Rae moves to Rome to set up shop. Once again she meets Paul and finally they begin an actual affair since Paul's shrewish, drunken wife, Liz, won't give him a divorce. Time passes, the affair continues whenever time and place permit, but then, Paul's young son finds out about Rae and Rae's back-street world begins to crumble.
The Initiation (1984) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Initiation
director: Larry Stewart actor: Vera Miles / Clu Gulager
other title: The Initiation (L'incubo) / Blutweihe
An amnesiac sorority member who has been plagued by a recurring nightmare is stalked alongside other coeds by a killer in a deserted department store where they are completing a hazing ritual.