English comedic actor best known for his role with The Monty Python comedy troupe and for starring in the much-loved, albeit short-lived Fawlty Towers. He has had memorable roles in films such as A Fish Called Wanda, Fierce Creatures, Clockwise, Shrek (as the King) and The World is Not Enough. In 2006 he was quoted saying in a Sotheby's catalogue "I'm six-foot-four", although in another interview with Playboy in 1988 he said "I'm 6'5" and weigh 210 pounds". In his Spotlight Casting page in the mid 1970's he listed himself as 6 feet 4½ inches but subsequently changed it to 6ft 5 in future decades.
Photo by Paul Boxley [CC-BY-SA-2.0] I went to a party - Graham [Chapman] was there, I remember—and suddenly Douglas [Adam] appeared, and we had a long chat. But what surprised me was that he was towering above me. Now, I’m six-four and a half, and I was quite surprised that he seemed to have grown. But I noticed after we’d been chatting for some time that he was wearing four inch high heels, and I was thinking that this was very bizarre. I’ve never met a very tall man who wore high heels before, but I didn’t like to ask him - I didn’t know if it was a joke or what.
-- Wired.com, 2014 No, I'm 1.93
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