How tall was Lon Chaney?

Lon Chaney is commonly listed at 5 ft 7 in (170 cm).

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Lon Chaney’s 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) is a little below average for a US man: about 25 in 100 US men are shorter.

Where your height falls Everyone about 5 ft 7 in

Lon Chaney beside others

Lon Chaney is in the middle of the 1,404 actors we have heights for: Sun Mingming (7 ft 9 in) stands 2 ft 2 in (66 cm) taller and Verne Troyer (2 ft 8 in) is 2 ft 11 in (88.7 cm) shorter. All 1,404 ranked, tallest first.

Also listed at 5 ft 7 in: Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis and Ben Stiller.

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Where this height comes from

5 ft 7 in (170 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: Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Lon Chaney, 5 ft 7 in (170 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)