Frankenstein's Monster Actors by Height
by alexkatsianos | created - 7 months ago | updated - 7 months ago | PublicAverage Height: 6' 6½" (1.99 m)
1. Roger W. Morrissey
Stunts | House of 1000 Corpses
Roger W. Morrissey is known for House of 1000 Corpses (2003), The Lords of Salem (2012) and The Devil's Rejects (2005).
Height: 7' 4" (2.24 m) Born: 1959 The Frankenstein Theory 2013 (Age: 54)
2. William Engesser
Actor | Switch
William Engesser was born on February 21, 1939 in Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Switch (1975), House on Bare Mountain (1962) and Gator (1976). He was married to Marjorie Idell Gain. He died on June 20, 2002 in Alabama, USA.
Height: 7' 3" (2.21 m) Born: 1939 The Ghost Busters TV Series 1975 (Age: 36)
3. John Lebar
Actor | Prometheus
John Lebar is known for Prometheus (2012), Jack the Giant Slayer (2013) and Sherlock Holmes vs. Frankenstein.
Height: 7' 3" (2.21 m) Born: ? Sherlock Holmes vs. Frankenstein (Age: ?)
4. John Bloom
Actor | The Great Outdoors
The big, bulky and extremely tall John F. Bloom was an imposingly massive 7 foot 4 inch tall giant who was born on February 19, 1944 and grew up both in and around Los Angeles, CA. He originally worked as an accountant until he was convinced to take up acting in 1971 by the legendary Grade Z ...
Height: 7' 0" (2.13 m) Born: 1944 Dracula vs. Frankenstein 1971 (Age: 27)
5. Carel Struycken
Actor | Men in Black
Carel Struycken was born in the Hague, The Netherlands. When he was four years old his family moved to Curacao, an island in the Caribbean. At age sixteen, he returned to his home country, where he finished high school. He graduated from the directing program at the film school in Amsterdam, ...
Height: 7' 0" (2.13 m) Born: 1948 The Addams Family 1991 (Age: 43)
6. Robert Maillet
Actor | Sherlock Holmes
Retired Canadian professional wrestler turned actor. Trained under Bret Hart, Leo Burke and Stephen Petitpas. Debuted in 1989 as the Acadian Giant for Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling. Competed for years in Canada, Japan and South Korea, using the name Goliath El Gigante. Arrived in the U.S. in 1997 ...
Height: 6' 9" (2.06 m) Born: 1969 Monster Brawl 2011 (Age: 42)
7. John DeSantis
Actor | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
John DeSantis was born on November 13, 1973 in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. He is an actor, known for Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) and The 13th Warrior (1999).
Height: 6' 9" (2.06 m) Born: 1973 The New Addams Family TV Series 1998 (Age: 25)
8. Guillaume Delaunay
Actor | Victor Frankenstein
Guillaume Delaunay was born on July 2, 1975 in Vendée, France. He is an actor, known for Victor Frankenstein (2015), Stonehearst Asylum (2014) and Tale of Tales (2015).
Height: 6' 9" (2.06 m) Born: 1975 Victor Frankenstein 2015 (Age: 40)
9. Ted Cassidy
Actor | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Ted Cassidy was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and raised in Philippi, West Virginia. He was a well respected actor who portrayed many different characters during his film and television career. His most notable role was Lurch, the faithful butler on the television series The Addams Family (1964)....
Height: 6' 8" (2.03 m) Born: 1932 The Addams Family TV Series 1964 (Age: 32)
10. Mike Lane
Actor | The Harder They Fall
Mike Lane was born on January 6, 1933 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The Harder They Fall (1956), Ulysses Against Hercules (1962) and Frankenstein 1970 (1958). He died on June 1, 2015 in Palmdale, California, USA.
Height: 6' 8" (2.03 m)
11. Richard Moll
Actor | But I'm a Cheerleader
Charles Richard Moll was an American actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the role of Aristotle Nostradamus "Bull" Shannon, the bailiff on the NBC sitcom Night Court from 1984 to 1992. He has also done extensive work as a voice actor, typically using his deep voice to portray villainous ...
Height: 6' 8" (2.03 m) Born: 1943 Weird Science TV Series 1996 (Age: 53)
12. David Prowse
Actor | Star Wars
David "Dave" Prowse was born into a working class family on 1 July, 1935 in Bristol, England, UK. He was raised by his mother and never knew his father. As a child, David was disadvantaged and a poor student, he found a passion for bodybuilding and weight training in his early teens, as a young ...
Height: 6' 6" (1.98 m) Born: 1935 The Horror of Frankenstein 1970 (Age: 35) Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell 1974 (Age: 39)
13. Spencer Wilding
Actor | Rogue One
Spencer Wilding is a Welsh actor and special creature performer in the UK.
He is known for his interpretation of strong and imposing characters, often using prosthetics and makeup. He has appeared in films and series like Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, the saga Harry Potter, Wrath of the Titans (2012)...
Height: 6' 6" (1.98 m) Born: 1972 Victor Frankenstein 2015 (Age: 43)
14. Kiwi Kingston
Actor | The Evil of Frankenstein
Kiwi Kingston was born in 1914 in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was an actor and writer, known for The Evil of Frankenstein (1964), Hysteria (1965) and Mich a Série (2024). He died in 1992.
Height: 6' 5" (1.96 m)
15. Fred Gwynne
Actor | My Cousin Vinny
Fred Gwynne was an enormously talented character actor most famous for starring in the television situation comedies Car 54, Where Are You? (1961) (as Officer Francis Muldoon) and The Munsters (1964) (as the Frankenstein clone Herman Munster). He was very tall at 6'5" and had a resonant, baritone ...
Height: 6' 5" (1.96 m)
16. Tom Noonan
Actor | Synecdoche, New York
Offbeat character actor Tom Noonan, born in Connecticut on April 12, 1951, started off his career in various theater troupes that utilized his skills as a guitarist and composer. A graduate from Yale's acting school, he founded the Paradise Theatre in 1983, which was instrumental later in his ...
Height: 6' 5" (1.96 m)
17. Christopher Lee
Actor | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was perhaps the only actor of his generation to have starred in so many films and cult saga. Although most notable for personifying bloodsucking vampire, Dracula, on screen, he portrayed other varied characters on screen, most of which were villains, whether it ...
Height: 6' 4½" (1.94 m)
18. Glenn Strange
Actor | Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
At various times in his life a rancher, deputy sheriff and rodeo performer, this huge, towering (6' 5") beast of a man was born George Glenn Strange in Weed, New Mexico, on August 16, 1899, but grew up a real-life cowboy in Cross Cut, Texas. He taught himself (by ear) the fiddle and guitar at a ...
Height: 6' 4" (1.93 m)
19. Michael Gwynn
Actor | Jason and the Argonauts
Michael Gwynn was born on November 30, 1916 in Bath, Somerset, England, UK [now Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK]. He was an actor, known for Jason and the Argonauts (1963), Cleopatra (1963) and Village of the Damned (1960). He was married to Margaret Jean Bartlam. He died on January 29, ...
Height: 6' 3¼" (1.91 m)
20. Shuler Hensley
Actor | Van Helsing
Shuler Hensley is an American film and stage actor and singer who is well-known for playing Frankenstein's monster in many works, including the 2004 cult classic film Van Helsing, starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Beckinsale. He also played Mr. Hyde on set before getting dubbed over by Robbie Coltrane...
Height: 6' 3" (1.91 m)
21. Peter Boyle
Actor | Everybody Loves Raymond
A bold, blunt instrument of hatred and violence at the onset of his film career, Peter Boyle recoiled from that repugnant, politically incorrect "working class" image to eventually play gruff, gentler bears and even comedy monsters in a career that lasted four decades.
He was born on October 18, ...
Height: 6' 2¼" (1.89 m)
22. David Warner
Actor | Titanic
Distinguished character actor David Hattersley Warner was born on July 29, 1941 in Manchester, England, to Ada Doreen (Hattersley) and Herbert Simon Warner. He was born out of wedlock and raised by each of his parents, eventually settling with his itinerant father and stepmother. He only saw his ...
Height: 6' 2" (1.88 m)
23. Lon Chaney Jr.
Actor | The Wolf Man
American character actor whose career was influenced (and often overshadowed) by that of his father, silent film star Lon Chaney. The younger Chaney was born while his parents were on a theatrical tour, and he joined them onstage for the first time at the age of six months. However, as a young man,...
Height: 6' 1⅝" (1.87 m)
24. Bela Lugosi
Actor | Dracula
Bela Lugosi was born Béla Ferenc Dezsö Blaskó on October 20, 1882, Lugos, Hungary, Austria-Hungary (now Lugoj, Romania), to Paula de Vojnich and István Blaskó, a banker. He was the youngest of four children. During WWI, he volunteered and was commissioned as an infantry lieutenant, and was wounded ...
Height: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
25. Gary Conway
Writer | Over the Top
Gary Conway was born on February 4, 1936 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Over the Top (1987), American Ninja 2: The Confrontation (1987) and Burke's Law (1963). He has been married to Marian McKnight since December 21, 1958. They have two children.
Height: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
26. Boris Karloff
Actor | Bride of Frankenstein
Along with fellow actors Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi and Vincent Price, Boris Karloff is recognized as one of the true icons of horror cinema, and the actor most closely identified with the general public's perception of the "monster" from the classic Mary Shelley book, "Frankenstein". William Henry ...
Height: 5' 11" (1.80 m)
27. Aaron Eckhart
Actor | The Dark Knight
Aaron Edward Eckhart is an American actor. Born in Cupertino, California, Eckhart moved to the United Kingdom at an early age, when his father relocated the family. Several years later, he began his acting career by performing in school plays, before moving to Australia for his high school senior ...
Height: 5' 10¾" (1.80 m)
28. Robert De Niro
Actor | Cape Fear
One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French. He was trained ...
Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m)
29. Ferdinando Murolo
Actor | Los monstruos del terror
Ferdinando Murolo was born on January 2, 1938 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He is an actor, known for Assignment Terror (1970), La piovra (1984) and All the Way Boys (1972).
Height: ?
30. Shelly Weiss
Actor | Bulldog
Shelly Weiss was an actor, known for Bulldog (2002), Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971) and Aphex Twin: Come to Daddy (1997). He died in April 2004 in North Hollywood, California, USA.
Height: ?
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