How tall is Harold Lloyd

Toby Barrett said on 7/Mar/22
this is proof johan aasen was under 8 foot and was 7 ft 4

greg lehmann said on 2/Nov/18
The most underrated of all the great silent movie comics. He looked 5'7" to me.

jonas henriks said on 20/Jan/18
this guy looked 5 feet with Aasen, but it has to be high heels on Aasen. Because it was not just camera,this guy looked 4"6 if Aasen was just 7"2, I believe Aasen was a solid 7"4 guy when he was young, and this guy has to be atleast 5"8 because of all the records saying he was 5"10. And then heels and camera made Aasen look 2-2.5 feet taller but in reality was 1"8 taller. AAsen was def not over 8 feet

Arch Stanton said on 22/Jul/15
Guys like Lloyd, Gene Kelly and Sinatra were bang on average height I think for their generation.

Phil said on 21/Jul/15
@mande2013: There were numerous reports and articles released some time ago stating how European men grew 4 inches in 100 years. Again, considering how much our standard of living has increased since, it's not that surprising. I see my latest comment hasn't shown up yet, but in the earliest cdc report made in the early 1960s, 5'5" was above the 10th percentile (for men), today that's not the case. You say that a 5'7 guy born in 1930 is the same as a 5'7 guy born in 1980, while that may not be far from the truth (the latter's average was about an inch taller), men who were 5'7" peak in 1930 (meaning mostly men born before 1910) were not as short as they would be today.

Phil said on 20/Jul/15
Of course my link didn't work, just type in 'College height histogram 1914 and 1997' and you'll see where I'm getting at.

mande2013 said on 20/Jul/15
@Phil: Perhaps, but I just don't think average height has changed by as much as 2-3 inches in a century, at least not in the US or much of Western Europe. A 5'7 peak guy born in 1930 is the same as a 5'7 guy born in 1980 in terms of regression from the mean. In France circa 1800, the average height may have been 2.5 inches lower than what it is today. Today, average male height in France is 5'8.5. Napoleon was 5'6, and that was the average height in his time, so a 5'2 Balzac was probably like a 5'5 guy today.

mande2013 said on 14/Jul/15
If we're going to compare the height of someone 90-100 years ago to its modern equivalent, shouldn't we consider other factors beyond exclusively regression from the mean. Just to outline, average male height in the US today is 5'9.5. In 1912 it was 5'8.25 according to one piece I read, but it might not necessarily be so easy as to just add an inch to a man's height if he were alive back then to come up with the contemporary equivalent. For instance, the bell curve may have been different. Heights may have been distributed slightly differently. 5'5 and 5'6 may have been just as common or not so common back then as they are today, but perhaps there were fewer men who were 6'3/6'4, which would probably bring the numerical average down, even if a "5'5 guy" in the 1920's was still a "5'5 guy" just as he would be today. Just some food for thought.

Arch Stanton said on 12/Feb/15
Haha, and what about the one at 11:15? One thing about a lot of these comedy silent shorts you get a big range of heights. A lot of them had the circus factors.

Arch Stanton said on 12/Feb/15
Rob, this is WAY too low, check him out at 6:20 here Click Here The resemblance to Peter Crouch is uncanny!! :-) Did you mean 6'7.5 rather than 5'7.5? Seriously though check him out at 7:11, how tall is that guy next to him? He'd surely be 6'4.5-6'5? He has a full head on him. He makes Harold look shorter than 5'7" range. His name was Roy Brooks, not sure if a listing could be found for him, he looks very tall.

bran said on 15/Oct/14
THE giant is John Aasen... silent film actor , from America.. listed in guinness book of records as 7"1

Arch Stanton said on 14/Oct/14
Baer was 6'6.5 I think. In Quo Vadis he made Deborah Kerr look little Sue's height!!

Sam said on 13/Oct/14
Yeah, he looked too big to be Baer...God, he's one the most massive giants I've seen, like a less fat Andre the Giant but even taller. Anyway, yeah, good call on Lloyd, he does look roughly as listed.

Tim said on 12/Oct/14
@yenz: I actually heard something like that too, except it said 5'6" instead. Regardless, here is a link that guided my logic a bit: Click Here Whatever average height (which in my link is listed by birth year, as in the average man BORN in 1930 is 69.2 inches) we were during the 1850s, decreased towards the late 1800s due to immigration and harsh living conditions. So Harold Lloyd himself was technically above average considering the year he was born in (the average baby born in 1890-1900 was 66.6-66.9 inches), and these numbers (at least the ones prior to 1960) were military recorded, meaning it mainly speaks for the 20-49 year old age group. I just thought it's worth mentioning.

Arch Stanton said on 12/Oct/14
Yeah he looked easily 7'2, could look even taller but he did seem to often wear big boots which made him look even bigger.

Arch Stanton said on 11/Oct/14
Yeah Sinatra was average for his generation but I tend to think of him as short even for then as a lot as he was often alongside tall guys.

yenz said on 11/Oct/14
@Tim I think it took longer than that, for the average height to go up.

I was reading an article about Abraham Lincoln, and they said "Abraham was 6'4" during a time when the average U.S. man was 5'7", ".

So the average man could've been 5'7" in the 1850s.

Arch Stanton said on 11/Oct/14
You know Rob, with silent film listings Viper might actually be right by downgrading everybody by 2-2.5 inches hehe, you'd have thought? ;-)

Tim said on 11/Oct/14
Well, Lloyd's 5'7.5" is the 1920s/30s equivalent of a 5'10" guy today., and since most people forget that average height changed since then, the more modern viewers watching probably assumed that he 'looked' 5'10"" without factoring anything else in.

Arch Stanton said on 11/Oct/14
Rob can you add For Heaven's Sake too? That should do it.

Arch Stanton said on 11/Oct/14
Spot on Rob, thankyou! Nice selection of films too. Did you find a quote at all? I've seen 5 ft 10 listed for him which is ridiculous. Always looked between 5 ft 7 and 8 to me. 171-72cm would be about right.