How tall was Burt Reynolds

American actor best remembered for starring in films like Deliverance, Cannonball Run, Smokey and the Bandit, Boogie Nights and The Longest Yard. On TV he starred in Evening Shade.

Lady, no actor is five eleven. There's not an actor in the world who isn't ever 6 feet.- New York Times, 1972

Gunsmoke was 2½ years of looking at Jim Arness' belt buckle. I think I'm the only actor under 6 feet tall who admits to it. But I'm 6-foot-3 with my boots on.
- 1972

Reynolds...suggest I ignore his official biography. "All actors are six feet tall or over in their biographies. Mine says I'm 6 feet 1, but I'm only 5 feet 11."
- 1966

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"Burt will wear lifts on you...When they told me I wasn't big enough, I said it would work if I wore lifts and Burt didn't. he says, 'Oh, no.'
Burt didn't wear any lifts in 'Deliverance.' Boy he did in 'White Lightning.' He had enough leather under him to make shoes for all of us"
-- Ned Beatty