5 ft 8.5 in (174 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.
Robert Duvall is commonly listed at 5 ft 8.5 in (174 cm).
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Robert Duvall’s 5 ft 8.5 in (174 cm) is about average for a US man: about 44 in 100 US men are shorter.
Robert Duvall is in the middle of the 1,404 actors we have heights for: Sun Mingming (7 ft 9 in) stands 2 ft 0.5 in (62 cm) taller and Verne Troyer (2 ft 8 in) is 3 ft 0.5 in (92.7 cm) shorter. All 1,404 ranked, tallest first.
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: Bernard Gotfryd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.
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