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Tuesday, July 9th, 2024 1:53 AM

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Searching Actors by Height on IMDb?

I've often used the Advanced Search on the IMDb to find people and information.  I'm now trying to identify an old actor who always plays really tall, really mean characters -- thugs, executioners, pirates, etc.  Possibly as early as the 1920s, but certainly by the 1930s and 1940s, and maybe into the 1950s.  I'm betting that he is over 6 feet tall.  I struck me that if I could search by height on the IMDb (height is often listed in the Biography), I could make up lists of actors who were 6'1", 6'2", etc., and, provided a picture came up, I would recognize the actor and know his name.  

This particular actor looks superficially like -- but is not -- Constantine Romanoff.  He appears as the drummer for the execution of Cawdor in the 1948 Orson Welles version of Macbeth.  It's about 12 minutes in on the 107-minute version.  As always, the guy has a grubby, short beard.  If anyone knows who this actor is, let me know, but also I would be interested in learning how to use the data to search actors by height.

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5 months ago

By the way, the actor I have in mind is seen very clearly in Image 70 of the 102 IMDb pictures from the 1948 Macbeth.  He is not named there, but his face will be familiar to many old film fans.

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5 months ago

Old: It is possible to search actors by height using IMDbPro, but not the free IMDb site.

However, to make it easier for you to find someone who can identify this actor, here is the direct link to the photo you mentioned:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040558/mediaviewer/rm1688898817/