How tall was Lee J. Cobb?

Lee J. Cobb is commonly listed at 5 ft 11.5 in (182 cm).

A figure repeated without a date or a measurement. Where this height comes from

Lee J. Cobb’s 5 ft 11.5 in (182 cm) is a little above average for a US man: about 82 in 100 US men are shorter.

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Lee J. Cobb beside others

Lee J. Cobb is one of the taller actors we have heights for: Sun Mingming (7 ft 9 in) stands 1 ft 9.5 in (54 cm) taller and Verne Troyer (2 ft 8 in) is 3 ft 3.5 in (100.7 cm) shorter. All 1,404 ranked, tallest first.

Also listed at 5 ft 11.5 in: Cameron Monaghan, Sigourney Weaver and Mandy Patinkin.

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5 ft 11.5 in (182 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 Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Lee J. Cobb, 5 ft 11.5 in (182 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)