The following carefully curated list shines the light on the top 50 tallest male actors of Hollywood movies of the past and present.
1. Max Palmer
Height – 8 ft 2 in or 2.49 m
American actor cum professional wrestler who has worked in the movie Killer Ape in 1953.
2. Sun Mingming
Height – 7 ft 9 in or 2.36 m
Chinese professional basketball player and actor. Sun is known for his role in the 2007 movie Rush Hour 3.
3. Bao Xishun
Height – 7 ft 9 in or 2.36 m
Chinese herdsman who made a television appearance on the hit reality show The Amazing Race in May 2010 as a pit stop greeter.
4. Igor Vovkovinskiy
Height – 7 ft 8⅓ in or 2.35 m
Ukrainian-American law student and actor who has worked in the 2011 movie Hall Pass.
5. Jóhann K. Pétursson
Height – 7 ft 8 in or 2.34 m
Pétursson was an Icelandic actor and circus performer whose film credits included the movie Prehistoric Women in 1950. He died in 1984.
6. George Bell
Height – 7 ft 8 in or 2.34 m
American actor who played college basketball and is also the deputy sheriff in Norfolk, Virginia. He has appeared in 2 seasons of the AMC show Freakshow from 2013 to 2014.
7. Neil Fingleton
Height – 7 ft 7½ in or 2.33 m
Neil was an English actor who was cast in X-Men: First Class (2011) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) before his untimely death in 2017 at the age of 37.
8. Gheorghe Mureşan
Height – 7 ft 7 in or 2.31 m
Romanian basketball player (retired) and actor who played the titular role in the movie My Giant alongside comedian Billy Crystal in 1998.
9. Lock Martin
Height – 7 ft 7 in or 2.31 m
Lock Martin was an American actor who bagged the role of the robot Gort in the 1951 movie The Day the Earth Stood Still.
10. Daniel Gilchrist
Height – 7 ft 7 in or 2.31 m
As an American actor, Daniel Gilchrist has starred in the 2017 fantasy creature movie Enauttii as the eponymous character.
11. Christopher Greener
Height – 7 ft 6¼ in or 2.29 m
Basketball player and actor from Britain who played the circus giant in the movie The Elephant Man in 1980.
12. Matthew McGrory
Height – 7 ft 6 in or 2.29 m
McGrory was a well-known American actor in movies such as Bubble Boy (2001), Big Fish (2003), and The Devil Rejects (2005). He died in 2005 due to heart failure at the age of 32 while filming a biography on André the Giant.
13. André the Giant
Height – 7 ft 4 in or 2.24 m
André Roussimoff was a professional wrestler and actor whose most notable film appearance was in the movie Princess Bride as Fezzik, the Giant in 1987.
14. George McArthur
Height – 7 ft 4 in or 2.24 m
American actor and variety artist who has made an appearance in Big Fish (2003). His TV show credits include According to Jim, Highway to Heaven, etc.
15. Peter Mayhew
Height – 7 ft 3 in or 2.21 m
An English-American actor who became famous for playing the iconic Chewbacca in the Star Wars saga from 1980 to 2015.
16. John Aasen
Height – 7 ft 2.4 in or 2.20 m
As an American silent film actor, Aasen appeared in the silent movie Why Worry? in 1923.
17. Kevin Peter Hall
Height – 7 ft 2 in or 2.19 m
African American actor who is known for playing the titular role of Predator in the Predator series in 1987 and 1990.
18. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Height – 7 ft 2 in or 2.19 m
An American professional basketball player and actor who has appeared in TV shows like Full House, Diff’rent Strokes, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, etc. He has also acted in Bruce Lee‘s Game of Death in 1972.
19. Richard Kiel
Height – 7 ft 1½ in or 2.17 m
American actor who became popular for playing the steel-toothed Jaws in the James Bond movies like The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).
20. Shaquille O’Neal
Height – 7 ft 1 in or 2.16 m
American basketball player, actor, and a rapper who appeared in TV shows like Curb Your Enthusiasm, My Wife & Kids, and The Parkers.
21. Ian Whyte
Height – 7 ft 1 in or 2.16 m
Welsh actor notorious for playing White Walkers, Wun Wun and Ser Gregor Clegane in the HBO series Game of Thrones.
His film credits include Alien vs. Predator (2004), Alien vs. Predator: Requiem (2007), Prometheus (2012), and Clash of the Titans (2010).
22. Wilt Chamberlain
Height – 7 ft 1 in or 2.16 m
American basketball player and actor, known mostly for playing the villainous warrior alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in Conan the Destroyer (1984).
23. Dalip Singh Rana
Height – 7 ft 1 in or 2.16 m
An Indian-born American professional wrestler and actor, known lovingly as The Great Khali, has acted in The Longest Yard (2005) and Get Smart (2008).
24. Robert Maffei
Height – 7 ft 1 in or 2.16 m
American actor who was known for acting in films like Star Trek (1966), The Lord of the Rings (1978), and Nice Dreams (1981).
25. Patrick Ewing
Height – 7 ft or 2.14 m
A Jamaican-American basketball player who has appeared as himself in movies like Space Jam (1996) and Senseless (1998).
26. Mark ‘Conan’ Stevens
Height – 7 ft or 2.14 m
Stevens is an Australian actor who played Gregor “The Mountain” Clegane in season 1 of Game of Thrones and also portrayed the titular role of the green swamp monster in Marvel’s film Man-Thing.
27. Carel Struycken
Height – 7 ft or 2.14 m
He is a Dutch actor who is known for his roles in TV shows like Twin Peaks (1990-91, 2017), Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1992).
28. Tiny Ron Taylor
Height – 7 ft or 2.14 m
American former basketball player and actor, Taylor is best known for playing Lothar in The Rocketeer in 1991.
29. Paul Wight
Height – 7 ft 0 in or 2.13 m
American professional wrestler and actor who has acted in films like The Waterboy (1998) and MacGruber (2010).
30. Kristian Nairn
Height – 6 ft 11 in or 2.11 m
The Northern Irish native is a DJ and actor known mostly for playing the role of the simple-minded Hodor in the epic fantasy series Game of Thrones.
31. Joonas Suotamo
Height – 6 ft 10 in or 2.09 m
Finnish basketball player and actor who has portrayed the role of Chewbacca (originally played by Peter Mayhew) in the Star Wars saga in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) and Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018).
32. Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson
Height – 6 ft 9 in or 2.06 m
A professional strongman and actor from Iceland who has acted in the Games of Thrones as Gregor Clegane since 2014.
33. John DeSantis
Height – 6 ft 9 in or 2.06 m
A Canadian actor who is known for the portrayal of Lurch on the television series The New Addams Family (1998).
34. Brad Garrett
Height – 6 ft 8½ in or 2.05 m
American actor and stand-up comedian who is known prominently for playing Robert Barone in the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond from 1996 to 2005.
35. Stephen Merchant
Height – 6 ft 7 in or 2.01 m
English writer, director, actor, comedian, and radio presenter who is known for his collaboration with Ricky Gervais on the British sitcom The Office (2001-2003).
36. James Cromwell
Height – 6 ft 6½ in or 2 m
This American actor is known for his work on The Green Mile (1999), The Artist (2011), and The American Horror Story: Asylum (2012).
37. Kevin Durand
Height – 6 ft 6 in or 1.98 m
Canadian actor and singer who is known for working in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and The Butterfly Effect (2004).
38. Penn Jillette
Height – 6 ft 6 in or 1.98 m
Penn has been a successful actor, magician, comedian, author, musician, and filmmaker, who appeared in the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in 1998.
39. Fess Parker
Height – 6 ft 5½ in or 1.97 m
American actor and winemaker, Fess Parker was renowned for playing the titular character in The Davy Crockett miniseries from 1954-1955.
40. David Prowse
Height – 6 ft 5¼ in or 1.96 m
English bodybuilder, weightlifter, and character actor, known best for physically portraying Darth Vader in the Star Wars Trilogy.
41. Armie Hammer
Height – 6 ft 5 in or 1.96 m
Armie Hammer is an American actor known for playing the role of Oliver in the romantic drama Call Me by Your Name in 2017.
42. John Cleese
Height – 6 ft 5 in or 1.96 m
English actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter John Cleese is well-known for appearing in the James Bond movies The World Is Not Enough (1999) as R and Die Another Day (2002) as Q.
43. Howard Stern
Height – 6 ft 5 in or 1.96 m
American, actor, author, photographer, radio and television personality, and producer, Howard Stern has acted in the movie Ryder P.I. (1986).
44. Vince Vaughn
Height – 6 ft 5 in or 1.96 m
American comedian, screenwriter, producer, and actor who has appeared in movies like Wedding Crashers (2005) and the HBO television series True Detective (2014).
45. Dolph Lundgren
Height – 6 ft 5 in or 1.96 m
Swedish actor, martial artist, director, producer, and screenwriter, Lundgren had a breakthrough role in Rocky IV as a Soviet boxer Ivan Drago in 1985.
46. Tim Robbins
Height – 6 ft 5 in or 1.96 m
American actor, musician, producer, director, screenwriter, and activist who has played pivotal roles in The Shawshank Redemption and Mystic River for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2004.
47. Dwayne Johnson
Height – 6 ft 5 in or 1.96 m
American professional wrestler, actor, and producer who is well known for playing Luke Hobbs in the Fast and the Furious franchise.
48. Tyler Perry
Height – 6 ft 5 in or 1.96 m
American actor, songwriter, comedian, filmmaker, and writer, Perry is known for his role in Madea’s Family Reunion (2006) and Gone Girl (2014).
49. Christopher Lee
Height – 6 ft 5 in or 1.96 m
English character actor, author, and singer, famously known for playing roles in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), The Lord of The Rings (2001-2003), The Hobbit trilogy (2012-2014), etc.
50. Joe Manganiello
Height – 6 ft 5 in or 1.96 m
American actor, narrator, producer, director, and author who is well-known for playing Alcide Herveaux in the HBO series True Blood along with movies Magic Mike and Magic Mike XXL.
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