How tall was Telly Savalas?

Telly Savalas is commonly listed at 6 ft 1 in (185 cm).

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Telly Savalas’s 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) is tall for a US man: about 90 in 100 US men are shorter.

Where your height falls Everyone about 6 ft 1 in

Telly Savalas beside others

Telly Savalas is one of the taller actors we have heights for: Sun Mingming (7 ft 9 in) stands 1 ft 8 in (51 cm) taller and Verne Troyer (2 ft 8 in) is 3 ft 5 in (103.7 cm) shorter. All 1,404 ranked, tallest first.

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6 ft 1 in (185 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.

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Telly Savalas, 6 ft 1 in (185 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)