The Internet Movie Database lists heights in the biography sections for
all the people they have it for.  I think Jonathan Frakes is around 6'4",
about an inch taller than me, and he seems to tower over everybody as if
he were a basketball player.  Most of the stage actors I've met in person
are a lot shorter than me, even if they look tall on stage.

Scott

On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Krin Gabbard wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> For a paper I'm writing, I need information about the heights of leading men in
> mainstream Hollywood films.  I seem to recall a piece in Entertainment Weekly,
> Esquire, or some other such periodical that listed actors by actual height and
> then by the height claimed for them by their publicists.  Anyone know that
> article?
>
> More importantly, I want to say that Paul Newman, Mel Gibson, and Robert Redford
> are all about 5'7", and that Tom Cruise and Al Pacino are about 5'4".  Do those
> numbers sound right?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>      Krin Gabbard
>
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