cleftheart says on 25/Feb/10
@willie27:
Mark Hamill is not even 60 yet. How could he be in his late 60's... lol.

willie27 says on 30/Nov/09
great actor mark hamill is in sci-fiction films and action, and few comedy shows, have not seen him in movies sense late 2000s or above.and only few guest appears in shows, probably cause he is late 60's age. and the younger guys took over is spot in films .most all action or adventure hero actors are 6' and under height.just a fact, there are a few 6'1 tall action, adventure hero actors, and least fewer 6'3 and above very taller action, adventure,hero actors.

Andy says on 5/Oct/09
I just had a chance to watch Empire Strikes Back again, at the very end, there's a shot of him standing right next to Fisher and he was at most 5 inches taller than her.

Fettfan says on 21/Sep/09
I'm 5'8 in real life and Luke looks short to me in the movie. The storm trooper armor does look funny in A New Hope but in other scenes he looks normal. C3PO is taller than him and Leia looks almost as tall as him so I'm guessing he is probably 5'7 in the movie. Doesn't really matter short people have better CG :)

koriann says on 12/Aug/09
He didnt age that bad i have seen people who have aged worse, and he looks about the same hight as Tom cruise.

Michelle says on 5/Jun/09
I've seen Dave Prowse in person and let me tell you, he is HUGE. Not just tall but large as well. Peter Mayhew is very thin and tall and cool.

BJSavage says on 31/May/09
I've seen A New Hope a million times and Luke looks to be about 5'5 or 5'6 to me. He's shorter than C-3PO & Obi-Wan, and only comes up to Han's eye, or eye brow at the end of the movie when they get decorated; standing side by side. He also looks fairly short in his Stormtrooper costume, since the chest armor is quite low on him. 501st members might agree with me here. Not to disagree, or argue with anyone, but I really think he is about 5'5 or possibly 5'7 around the time of A New Hope. Since he is quite a bit older now, I would even guess 5'4 0r 5'5 tops. A lot of people guessed 5'9. I'd say thats possible with his "heels" or whatever shoes were popular in the 70's.

RisingForce says on 7/May/09
5-7, he was just about 4 inches shorter than samuel l jackson recently. in fairness jackson was wearing thin shoes and hamill in monster elevators. he also gave 5-8, 5-8.5 illusions at an event next to 5-11.75, 6-0 harrison ford in 2005. 5-7 guy who hasn't lost height.

Random Person says on 2/Apr/09
It's a little hard to judge from that photo. I'd say 5'8 according to that photo, but 5'7.25 normally.

Hmaill used to be a good looking dude with boyish looks, he's aged a little bad unfortunately.

Dr Almonds says on 31/Jan/09
Id say 5'7.5 from this photo, he seems short in the starwars films but he is not a little guy. His large face, head and the puffy haircut in starwars adds to him seeming shorter than 5'7.

D says on 10/Jan/09
just watched star wars on tv... han solo towers over luke skywalker and princess leia... if harrison ford is around 6 feet tall, mark hamill can't be any taller than 5'6"

RisingForce says on 27/Dec/08
He's probably as he says, about 5-8 in heels. Making him under 5-7, maybe 5-6ish.

Anonymous says on 24/Dec/08
He's shorter than I thought. Maybe it's because I'm short-even for my age, but I think the minimum good height for men is 5'9". Still, nothing against Mark Hamill.

Maribel says on 26/Sep/08
I'd say 1.71cm.

Jordan says on 14/Sep/08
I think if mark didnt lean in, Mamun would be an inch taller most likely.

Socom says on 9/Sep/08
I have to say Skywalker is 5'6.75. It is obviously a TERRIBLE picture all around.

Steve says on 19/Aug/08
Mark looks taller on that pic,there is no way he was only 5'6"-5'7" in those movies.

Uncle Joseph says on 19/Jul/08
They are both leaning. They look about the same height to me.

R says on 17/Jul/08
Marks shoulder is much lower than Supermans

Danimal says on 16/Jul/08
Looks 5'8". Rob, isn't the point of this site for us to look at a picture posted and gauge the height ourselves. You already decided for us at him being 5'7" without a prior debate and furthermore, that picture of him and Mamun, Mark is clearly looking the taller of the two, YET, you put down 5'7" for Mark? Not understanding your logic Rob.

Jurgen says on 13/Jul/08
Mark looks taller than Mamun. Face looks longer. Weird.

miko says on 11/Jul/08
I see 5"8 here.

Mamun says on 10/Jul/08
My friend he is closer to the camera and also I am leaning big time !

Regards

Mamun

Davey says on 10/Jul/08
i thought he would be atleast 5`9.

Mamun says on 9/Jul/08
MY friend I am leaning big time and he is closer to the camera !

Regards

Mamun

GSP says on 9/Jul/08
hhhmmm..why is he looking taller than mamum?

OutBenchThis says on 9/Jul/08
Ed, your conversions (metric to customary) are way off buddy.

Jack says on 6/Feb/08
More like 5'6"-5'7", I should think. Harrison Ford is 6'0", Carrie Fisher is (barely) 5'0"

sf says on 30/Dec/07
Yes, he must be between 5'8".5 and 5'9", even though, he, himself, said he was 5'8" in HEELS.

Nik says on 29/Dec/07
That's pretty close to his height I think, but about 1/2 an inch too short. I think Mark's between 5-8.5 and 5-9.

Leon says on 1/Oct/07
I've seen Star Wars more times than I can count, like most fans of the old trilogy, and I can honestly say that never once did I think Luke looked like a short guy. Han Solo looked like a tall guy, sure, but Luke always seemed a solid, normal height to me. Even when Leia says, 'Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?' I thought, what's she on about? lol

guy says on 14/Aug/07
Hey I never said the height chart was accurate but it does closely resemble the actors heights which is probably what it was based on. Gandalf is around 7 feet tall in Lord of the Rings universe compared to the midget hobbits. Aragorn is more of a Tommy Lee Jones character in the books than Viggo-Mortensen. This goes to show how the literary universe can differ from the cinematic from the real actors in the film. If the literary Luke Skywalker is 5-9 and Han Solo 5-11 than this differs greatly from the films where Han is easily 5 inches on Luke. Look at the final medal ceremony from ep 4. My height chart lists Grand Moff Tarkin at 5-11.5 which is accurate to Peter Cushing.

Ed says on 3/Aug/07
I'm a big Star Wars fan myself and I looked up a few of the main characters heights as listed in the Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Characters. First off they list everyone in meters so you have to use either a calculator and the conversion number for meters to feet, or you can be lazy and use one of the many free online ones. Keep in mind these are just the characters heights not necessarily the actors who played them, although in some cases they are pretty accurate. Here are the heights as listed officially by Lucasfilm themselves:

1. Anakin Skywalker/Hayden Christensen: 1.85 meters=6.069 feet
2. Darth Vader/David Prowse: 2.02 meters=6.627 feet
3. Han Solo/Harrison Ford: 1.8 meters=5.91 feet
4. Luke Sywalker/Mark Hamill: 1.72 meters=5.64 feet
5. Chewbacca/Peter Mayhew: 2.28 meters=7.48 feet
6. Obi Wan Kenobi/Ewan McGregor & Alec Guiness: 1.79 meters=5.87 feet
7. Mace Windu/Samuel L. Jackson: 1.88 meters=6.16 feet
8. Qui Gon Jinn/Liam Neeson: 1.93 meters=6.33 feet
9. Princess Leia/Carrie Fisher: 1.5 meters=4.92 feet
10. Padme Amidala/Natalie Portman: 1.65 meters=5.41 feet
11. C-3PO/Anthony Daniels: 1.67 meters=5.47 feet
12. Lando Calrissian/Billy Dee Williams: 1.77 meters=5.8 feet
13. Count Dooku/Christopher Lee: 1.93 meters=6.33 feet

guy says on 2/Aug/07
I had a Star Wars height chart growing up. Mark Hamill (or Luke Skywalker actually) was at the 5-8 mark. Han Solo was 6-0 even. Tusken Raider 6-2. Obi Wan 5-10. C 3p0 5-7. Leia 5-00. Darth Vader 6-5 ( the chart, for children, only went just past 6-5). R2 D2 I forget 4? ish or under. Chewie too tall for chart. I think some heights are accurate, others not. The darth Vader character was probably closer to 6-10 or more. David Prowse was 6-5. 6-2 was probably the height of the main Tusken Raider with the famous staff thrust film jiggle. Harrison Ford was actually 6-1 but 6-0 was sufficient for a "tall" label. Alec was probably 5-10 in his prime which is what they went from. Mark Hamill simply didn't look classic "short" in the star wars films (5-6 and under). I believe 5-8 and he looked it next to Harrison Ford. 5-6 is bull.

phil says on 10/Jun/07
looked 5'7''/5'8'' in star wars, just slightly shorter than anthony daniels in suit, and about 2 inchs shorter than Sir Alec, and about 5 inches under Ford. However in some episode 5 scenes looked only about 3-4 inches taller than Fisher.

HellBoundPower says on 13/Apr/07
I see people talking about how he needed major plastic surgery on his face after a car accident, but he himself said that it's all a big rumor, and that all he did was break his nose. I also believe he's 5'8".

hb45 says on 29/Jan/07
I know that on several sites, Mark is listed 5'9" (1,75m), and maybe that's true. But then, why would he have said himself: "I'm 5'8" in my heels" in the 70's? ... unless it's a mistake or a lie of the journalist who wrote that at that time.

DavidCassidysgirl says on 27/Jan/07
Mark Hamill is NOT 5 feet 7 inches...he is 5 feet 9 inches tall....If you look at him standing next to Jonathan brandis in one of the episodes of seaquest he guest starred on...He and Jon are the exact same height..and Jonathan Brandis was 5'9" tall....

McMurphy says on 8/Jan/07
Standing next to George Lucas when he was making the Star Wars films to me he looks about two cm taller then him, if George Lucas is 5'6 (1.68m) it would make sense that Mark Hamill was 5'7 (1.70m) or so.

leonari says on 5/Jan/07
LOL! Rob your the best man!

Mark Hamill says on 5/Jan/07
Yes this was actually me, i do use the word rubbish, and as i said i am 5'9 (1.75m) barefoot you can come along and measure me if you don't believe me, in fact i invite you to do that.

[Editor Rob: no, you are a moron who wastes my time... Please disengage your hyperdrivel and go back to Endor where you will fit right in with your fellow Ewoks...]

Spence says on 7/Dec/06
He looks 5'7 to me in Star Wars

Brad says on 12/Oct/06
Carrie Fisher came to Ray Courts' celebrity show. I couldn't believe how small she was....but then her parents are tiny also.

cabbagestew says on 17/Aug/06
I saw Mark in person at Comic Con in 2004. I suspect he's 5 ft 5.

ForensicNYC says on 16/Aug/06
George Lucas is a genius...storyteller.
On January 11, 1977 Mark Hamill suffered a horiffic car smash that caused damage to his nose and face requiring plastic surgery. They were just about to finish Episode IV...
Lucas had a major problem. How to continue the story in Episode V incorporating Hamill's obviously changed face and slight upper lip scar. Brilliant solution: Luke being attacked by an abominable snow creature and injuring his face! Emerging restored from the medical lab, Luke now had the markings of a wounded rebel leader.
Genius.

Brad says on 15/Aug/06
Shoulda gone to Creation Convention down at the Statler Hilton. One of Lucas' assistants was pleading his case that it wasn't "Buck Rogers" and would be great. Imagine that, the tough sell to the NY crowd. Hammill couldn't shake the "kid" image, cost him dearly and the plastic surgery was MAJOR and didn't help either. The guy from "The Mod Squad", Cole had the same thing happen but hushed up: a new face.

Brad says on 10/Aug/06
Very true. I wrote each Star Wars actors after I saw a preview of Star Wars at the NYC Creation Convention in November 1976. They all wrote back with letters. Those were the days.

Brad says on 6/Aug/06
Yes, Hamill's face is major plastic surgery. The powers that be in Hollywood frown on physical injury reports on their bread and butter. It was a major face ripping event from a very bad car accident.

Tim says on 10/Jul/06
He might have shrunk with age. It happens.

sf says on 13/Apr/06
Saw the episode of "Just Shoot Me" tonight with Mark Hamill in it. This is actually the third time I've seen it. He looked (and always has) about an inch and a half taller than David Spade to me. I might give him 5'7" at best.

mr. t says on 7/Apr/06
I heard he had a car accident, which is why he looks like hell these days--did that affect his height as well? I know my father was 5'7" or 5'8" age 19, then he got in a car that ran into a tree, that knocked a good two inches off his height. If Hamill's indeed 5'6"-5'7" now, he could have indeed been 5'7" or a bit more in his 20s depending on the severity of the crash.

CONNIE says on 24/Feb/06
I'm 57, so when I read that he was 5'9, I almost puked! From what I've read, he's 5'5 or 5'6, so I'm feeling a bit better now.

trueheight says on 9/Feb/06
well any star wars fan can tell you that Hamill looked alot shorter in A New Hope than in the subsequent films

TheMan says on 13/Jan/06
I know he was seen with david prowse(Darth Vader)6,7 or whatever making him look so short but to me he looks no more than 5,5 anyway he's deffently not even close to average height thats obvious IMO.

Anonymous says on 26/Dec/05
Well, in The Empire Strikes Back end, we can clearly see Mark is around 2" shorter than 5'8" Tony Daniels(C3PO).And Mark where wearing shoes.For me, he is just 5'5".

CelebHeights Editor says on 26/Nov/05
From West Coast Bureau in the 70's: "I'm not so short. I'm 5-foot-8-in my heels. The director, George Lucas, is my size - I'm really playing him in the movie - and he kept putting in short jokes. I never thought of myself as short until George told the world"

CelebHeights Editor says on 1/Sep/05
Tiger Beat Magazine 1977: "He stands 5'7'' tall and weighs around 130 pounds"

CelebHeights Editor says on 24/Aug/05
From a newsgroup: "Maybe a hair under five eight. five seven, perhaps? Judging on his height standing next to me and a friend who I *know* to be five eight, he was a shade shorter... we were in an elevator and all standing still. Also standing together just before a presentation at the convention"

Anshem says on 26/Jul/05
One thing about the character heights of Episode IV: they were converted from Imperial (!) measurements using a multiplier of 1 in=2.5 cm, and rounding the halves down. This can be plainly seen, when accompanied by the according inches: Han Solo 1.80 m/72 in, Darth Vader 2.02 m/81 in, etc.

For characters introduced in the later Episodes, the proper 1 in=2.54 cm multplier seems to have been used.

And it should be remembered that these are character heights, and they have never been claimed to represent the true heights of the actors. Chewbacca's 2.28 m, and Jar Jar 1.96 m...

I've seen the Vader suit – or a replica – up close, and indeed, 206 cm/6'9" seems more right than 202 cm/6'7½". 6'7" tall Dave Prowse had to fit into it, after all.

Mark says on 5/Mar/05
Harrison Ford - 1.80m OK
Mark Hammill - 1.72m bull$hit 168cm
Natalie Portman - 1.65m bull$hit 160-1cm
Hayden Christensen - 1.85m bull$hit 180-183cm

stevestarhgh says on 5/Mar/05
Mark Hamill is not 5'8 he was 5'6 in star wars he maybe shorter now like 5'5 he was shorter then David spade when he appeared on Just shoot me.