How tall was John Candy?

John Candy is commonly listed at 6 ft 3 in (190.5 cm).

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John Candy’s 6 ft 3 in (190.5 cm) is very tall for a US man: more than 95 in 100 US men are shorter.

Where your height falls Everyone about 6 ft 3 in

John Candy beside others

John Candy is one of the taller actors we have heights for: Sun Mingming (7 ft 9 in) stands 1 ft 6 in (45.5 cm) taller and Verne Troyer (2 ft 8 in) is 3 ft 7 in (109.2 cm) shorter. All 1,404 ranked, tallest first.

Also listed at 6 ft 3 in: Chris Hemsworth, Pete Davidson and Stellan Skarsgård.

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Where this height comes from

6 ft 3 in (190.5 cm)

A commonly listed height: it appears across many profiles, but none says when or how it was measured, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.

Photo: NBC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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John Candy, 6 ft 3 in (191 cm), drawn to scale beside the average US man, 5 ft 9 in (175 cm), and the average US woman, 5 ft 3.5 in (161 cm)