5 ft 6 in (167.6 cm)
A commonly listed height, as Wikipedia gives it, with no date or method, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.
Source: Wikipedia
Alan Ladd is commonly listed at 5 ft 6 in (167.6 cm).
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Alan Ladd’s 5 ft 6 in (167.6 cm) is a little below average for a US man: about 16 in 100 US men are shorter.
Alan Ladd is one of the shorter actors we have heights for: Sun Mingming (7 ft 9 in) stands 2 ft 3 in (68.4 cm) taller and Verne Troyer (2 ft 8 in) is 2 ft 10 in (86.4 cm) shorter. All 1,404 ranked, tallest first.
A commonly listed height, as Wikipedia gives it, with no date or method, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.
Source: Wikipedia
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