6 ft 6 in (198.1 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
Fess Parker is commonly listed at 6 ft 6 in (198.1 cm).
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Fess Parker’s 6 ft 6 in (198.1 cm) is very tall for a US man: more than 95 in 100 US men are shorter.
Fess Parker is one of the taller actors we have heights for: Sun Mingming (7 ft 9 in) stands 1 ft 3 in (37.9 cm) taller and Verne Troyer (2 ft 8 in) is 3 ft 10 in (116.8 cm) shorter. All 1,404 ranked, tallest first.
Also listed at 6 ft 6 in: Clint Walker, Ryan Stiles and Rory McCann.
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
Photo: SPC 5 JEROME HOWARD, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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