Tall or Not

January 22, 2005 7:09 AM

I'm taller than Al Roker(.swf) and Alfred Hitchcock but shorter than Czar Peter the Great. Compare your height to hundreds of celebrities with Tall or Not.
posted by NickDouglas (37 comments total)

Charles Schulz was 5'12" tall?
posted by MegoSteve at 7:26 AM on January 22, 2005

I'm only as tall as Janet Reno... 6'2"... holy crap I had no idea she was tall.
posted by C.Batt at 7:34 AM on January 22, 2005

Well, at least I'm taller than Billy Barty and Janeane Garofalo.
posted by briank at 7:48 AM on January 22, 2005

I got down to the N's and discovered that Boy George, Barry Manilow, Neil Young and Frank Zappa were all 6'0".

I was surprised to learn that Mao was 5'11. I would have guessed 5'5".

Mel Gibson is quite the man, apparently...he is listed as being both 5'9" and 5'10". I've heard of bilocation before, but this business of being two different heights at the same time is a new one on me.

You coulda knocked me over with a feather when I found out that Andre the Giant was taller than me!
posted by kozad at 7:52 AM on January 22, 2005

taller than jennifer aniston. in your face, shorty!
posted by littlegirlblue at 8:05 AM on January 22, 2005

Burt Lancaster was 6 feet tall. I trust this chart, 'cos I met him and I am in fact just about an inch taller than he was.

Mao was not noted for his grand sense of humor, but he did make a pretty amusing crack at expense of Deng Xioping (hope that spelling is at least close), who barely topped 5 feet...supposedly he asked anybody opposed to a measure he'd proposed to stand...Deng rose to his unimposing height, and Mao purportedly said, "Since I can't see anyone standing, we will go forward with it."

Or something like that. Since it's height-related I thought it to be pretty on-topic.
posted by 1016 at 8:08 AM on January 22, 2005

I'm amazed Audrey Hepburn was 5'9", but she's so tiny.
posted by Arch Stanton at 8:10 AM on January 22, 2005

Anyone else wish the interface was more like this?
posted by fatllama at 8:57 AM on January 22, 2005

I wish there were photos of each, and a nicer interface.

Still, next time I see Pacino on the street, I'm gonna shove the shrimp around a little.
posted by dougunderscorenelso at 9:02 AM on January 22, 2005

At least I'm taller than Hitler.

That motherfucker's been bragging about being taller than me ever since we were little. Now, at least, I have proof.
posted by shmegegge at 9:33 AM on January 22, 2005

That is a crappy interface. Why bother with entering your height at all, if they're not going to sort the results by height or just give you results near you? I second fatllama's comment.
posted by goatdog at 9:47 AM on January 22, 2005

Yeah, the UI is a bit clunky, but thats a cool concept (since I am rather short, it was encouraging, take that, Lenin!). Thanks for the link!
posted by tweak at 9:54 AM on January 22, 2005

Two inches shorter than Ricky Lake! Woo.
posted by goethean at 9:56 AM on January 22, 2005

I was surprised Babe Ruth was 6'2". I've always just assumed people were shorter back then.

A lot of these were surprising though. Daniel Patrick Moynahan was 6'5"? Michael Crichton is enormous at 6'10"!

The list was fun to look through, but had an odd mixture of porn stars (Nina Hartley, Marilyn Chambers) and Star Trek actors like Brent Spiner and Michael Dorn.
posted by crank at 10:19 AM on January 22, 2005

Now that I know I'm taller than Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Sylvester Stallone, Tom Cruise, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, George Clooney and a few other such "leading man" types, I'm feeling dead sexy today. Ph34r my Manly Loftiness! ;D

And it's not a bad thing at all to be the same height as Paul McCartney, from whom my mom gave me my middle name (Paul's first name is actually John). And the same height as Brad Pitt, too.

No, that's not a bad thing at all. :) I repeat: dead. sexy.

Oh and taller than Hitler, too. I'da beat him senseless. Bring it on, painter munchkin-boy!

Why is it odd to mix porn stars and Trek actors? And hey, where the hell are Nimoy, Shatner and Stewart?? Frakes is 6' 6"? Holy mackerel!

But uh... how tall is Wheaton?
posted by zoogleplex at 10:30 AM on January 22, 2005

Gwyneth Paltrow and I would be nose to nose.

Yeah, I know about "Apple". And your poor-man's-Thom-Yorke-husband. But I'm taller than both of them. Call me!
posted by dhoyt at 10:59 AM on January 22, 2005

I got 4 inches on Susan Miller the tallest Playboy Playmate, I wonder if I should give Hef a call.
posted by jodic at 11:20 AM on January 22, 2005

Apparently Bess Myerson is 5'12".
posted by interiority at 11:26 AM on January 22, 2005

Funny, as an editor, I'm thinking the oddest thing about the site is that it's alphabetized by first name.

Thank gawd someone mentioned Garofalo. Up until then I wasn't finding anyone who was even my height. Although I took comfort in Faulkner and Woody Allen being just four inches taller than me. Wow, and even Stallone and Cruise are somewhat shrimpish.

Mel Gibson is quite the man, apparently...he is listed as being both 5'9" and 5'10".
Before and after stretching from the crucifixion he no doubt practices at home.
posted by NorthernLite at 11:33 AM on January 22, 2005

Damn, Brooke Shields is taaaalll.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 11:37 AM on January 22, 2005

I like that David Hasselhoff's profession is "Muscian?"
posted by Sibrax at 11:38 AM on January 22, 2005

Why is it odd to mix porn stars and Trek actors?

Perhaps 'odd' wasn't the correct word, but the their inclusion betrays the interests of the creator of the site. Not that there's anything wrong with being into porno... or Star Trek for that matter.
posted by crank at 11:50 AM on January 22, 2005

Christopher Reeve

Am I the only one who expected a height of, say, 3'11"? I am a bad person.
posted by jenovus at 11:53 AM on January 22, 2005

jenovus: no. we are going to hell together.

I thought it was hilarious to see RuPaul listed as "Actor/Actress"
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 12:23 PM on January 22, 2005

I got to "Peter Mayhew II" just as Supernova's "Chewbacca" was ending on WinAMP's random playlist.
posted by Eideteker at 12:36 PM on January 22, 2005

I'm amazed Audrey Hepburn was 5'9", but she's so tiny.

She was 5'7", according to both this site and the bios I've read.

Bette Davis was exactly my height. Whoo hoo.
posted by orange swan at 12:56 PM on January 22, 2005

As would be expected, there are other websites analyzing this topic from A-Z, too. Some people's heights totally surprise me.

Barbara Boxer is the same height as Toulouse Lautrec? Really?
posted by miss lynnster at 1:01 PM on January 22, 2005

I'm as tall as Abe Lincoln. I always knew he and I shared something magical, but I thought it was our stately and legendary presence or our godly thighs, not simply our height.

Alas.
posted by The God Complex at 1:20 PM on January 22, 2005

*Sigh* God, now you got me moonin' 'bout Abe's perfect thighs.
posted by kozad at 1:52 PM on January 22, 2005

Wyatt Earp was 6'4"? How the hell did he not get shot at the O.K. Corral?
posted by Arch Stanton at 2:07 PM on January 22, 2005

I could have looked John Wayne in the eye. Nice.
posted by Leon at 6:48 PM on January 22, 2005

I can't believe Barry Bostwick is taller than me.
posted by WolfDaddy at 8:08 PM on January 22, 2005

Elton John is only 5'3"? Really? Why don't I think that's accurate? He's shorter than Fran Drescher?
posted by Dreama at 12:12 AM on January 23, 2005

Mary Queen of Scots was 6 feet tall? You're kidding me.
posted by jokeefe at 1:28 AM on January 23, 2005

So it says Cher is 5' 4". Now she was always calling Sonny Bono shorty. So how tall was he? This site was failed me.
posted by Lex Tangible at 7:42 AM on January 23, 2005

Riker's (Frakes) height is wrong. He's the same as Q, whom I nearly bounced into once. More like 6'4"
posted by NortonDC at 8:31 PM on January 25, 2005

It surprises me that Ann-Margaret is only 5'3". She always seemed so leggy.
posted by orange swan at 7:45 AM on January 26, 2005