6 ft 3 in (190.5 cm)
Orson Welles was listed at 6 ft 3 in (190.5 cm) in his passport. Listed height.
Source: Wikipedia
How tall was Orson Welles?
Orson Welles was listed at 6 ft 3 in (190.5 cm) in his passport.
He was already 6 ft tall at 13.
Orson Welles’s 6 ft 3 in (190.5 cm) is very tall for a US man: more than 95 in 100 US men are shorter.
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Orson Welles beside others
Orson Welles 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
This listing comes from Wikipedia. It is not a dated measurement, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.
Photo: Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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