How tall was Orson Welles

American actor and director best remembered for movies such as Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil, The Third Man, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Lady from Shanghai and Chimes at Midnight. In a book by Simon Callow he mentioned "The physical examination (which records his height at 72 inches, three and a half inches shorter than his usual reported height, and his weight as 218 lbs: 15 1/2 stones)", but noting some scoliosis of the spine and flat feet.
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HJ: I don't have anything against short people.
OW: Nor do I. I just know what they have against me. There's never been a tall dictator -- never....Name one. They're all under normal height.
HJ: Was Mussolini short?
OW: Very short.
HJ: Franco?
OW: Short. Hitler was short. Including those that you might feel more sympathetic to. Like Tito--tiny. Stalin--tiny...
Remember that the melancholy freaks are all giants, not midgets. The midgets and dwarfs all have delusions of grandeur.
HJ: How tall are you?
OW: I used to be six-three and a half, and I'm now about six-two. Six-one and a half, maybe. My neck keeps disappearing. Gravity, you know? Like Elizabeth Taylor. She has no neck left!

-- My lunches with Orson, Henry Jaglom (2013)