How tall was John Wayne

American actor best remembered for starring in films like The Searchers, True Grit, The Quiet Man, Stagecoach, Fort Apache, Rio Grande, Rio Bravo, The Man Who Shot Liberty Vance, The Alamo and The Green Berets.

Height: 6ft 3 and 3/4. Weight: 212 pounds- Wayne's 1943 O.S.S application form

He was a good example of the image taking over. Image on one side, reality on another side.
Big things: the war hero who did not fight in the war...But also the little things: he wore lifts. In his cowboy's boots, but also in his shoes. All Hollywood knew it.
-- Bette Davis

I did a movie with Duke and was very surprised to find out he had small feet and wore lifts and a corset. Hollywood is seldom what it seems.- Rock Hudson

Photo by Ned Scott, via Wikimedia Commons

John Wayne was so tall they put me on an apple box in the studio where they shot the close-ups.- Red River co-star Colleen Gray

Wayne liked big guys; everyone was a midget to him. Smaller guys annoyed him.- Richard Widmark

Many people don't realize it, but John Wayne was once a very short young fellow. When he first went to Hollywood and wanted to play the role of a cowboy, he was so short he had to ride a collie that was disguised as a horse.- Columnist Mike Royko

John Wayne had four-inch lifts in his shoes. He had the overheads on his boat accommodated to fit him. He had a special roof put in his station wagon. . . . The son of a bitch, they probably buried him in his goddamn lifts.- Robert Mitchum

[Wayne] is the type of guy who when asked his height, answers like this: "I'm 6-foot-4, 52 years old, have five children, two grandchildren and I love good whisky."

My grandfather was so graceful, even though he was a six-foot-five, 260-pound guy, and it was because he was so strong. It allowed him to move in a certain way. Plus he had tiny feet. He was six-feet-five-inches and his feet were as big as mine, which are 10s. And so he walked with his toes, like a dance.
-- Brendan Wayne, Vulture

"I've often heard people accuse me of being shorter than I am and trying to look bigger by having big heels on my boots.
Of course I had big heels when I was in a Western. Cowboys had big heels. But this picture [Brannigan] isn't a cowboy picture. Here, look at my shoes. Do you see any lifts?" I said I didn't. He said, "Do I seem short to you?" He didn't.
-- John Wayne by Michael Munn

Wayne was every bit as big a guy as he seemed, over six-foot-four, wide-shouldered, with small feet and huge hands. When we shook hands it felt as though my own disappeared in his grasp.
-- Peter Bogdanovich