American actor, best remembered for roles in films like To Kill a Mockingbird, The Guns of Navarone, Roman Holiday, The Omen, The Sea Wolves, Boys from Brazil, Gentleman's Agreement, The Paradine Case, Twelve O'Clock High, The Big Country, Moby Dick and Cape Fear. He said his height as
"6 foot 3" in the biography "A Charmed Life" and also in a 1946 article, describing how during a 2 month break between filming he put on 20 pounds,
"but I'm still only 185 pounds for my 6 feet 3."A 1956 article mentioned him as being "six-foot-two-and-a half inch" and a 2002 biography described how "he shot up to six feet two and a half inches while in high school — growing eleven inches between the ages of fifteen and seventeen".
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1948 Publicity Photo, via Wikimedia Commons
About the age of 17, nature took a hand. He shot up from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches. 'I grew like an asparagus - and looked like one too.'
-- A Charmed Life
