How tall was Rod Serling?

Rod Serling is commonly listed at 5 ft 4 in (163 cm).

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Rod Serling’s 5 ft 4 in (163 cm) is short for a US man: about 6 in 100 US men are shorter.

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Rod Serling is one of the shorter writers we have heights for: Peter Freuchen (6 ft 7 in) stands 1 ft 3 in (38 cm) taller and Lorenz Hart (5 ft 0 in) is 4.5 in (11 cm) shorter.

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5 ft 4 in (163 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: CBS Television via the Bureau of Industrial Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Rod Serling, 5 ft 4 in (163 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)