How tall was Richard Burton?

Richard Burton is commonly listed at 5 ft 9.5 in (177 cm).

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Richard Burton’s 5 ft 9.5 in (177 cm) is about average for a US man: about 59 in 100 US men are shorter.

Where your height falls Everyone about 5 ft 10 in

Richard Burton beside others

Richard Burton is in the middle of the 1,404 actors we have heights for: Sun Mingming (7 ft 9 in) stands 1 ft 11 in (59 cm) taller and Verne Troyer (2 ft 8 in) is 3 ft 1.5 in (95.7 cm) shorter. All 1,404 ranked, tallest first.

Also listed at 5 ft 9.5 in: Kenneth Branagh, Lee Byung-hun and Molly Sims.

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5 ft 9.5 in (177 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: 20th Century Fox, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Richard Burton, 5 ft 9.5 in (177 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)