5 ft 3 in (160 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
How tall was Mickey Rooney?
Mickey Rooney is commonly listed at 5 ft 3 in (160 cm).
A figure repeated without a date or a measurement. Where this height comes from
Mickey Rooney’s 5 ft 3 in (160 cm) is very short for a US man: fewer than 5 in 100 US men are shorter.
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Mickey Rooney beside others
Mickey Rooney is one of the shorter actors we have heights for: Sun Mingming (7 ft 9 in) stands 2 ft 6 in (76 cm) taller and Verne Troyer (2 ft 8 in) is 2 ft 7 in (78.7 cm) shorter. All 1,404 ranked, tallest first.
Also listed at 5 ft 3 in: Alexa PenaVega, Jodie Foster and Sydney Sweeney.
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Where this height comes from
Photo: Studio publicity still, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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