Many celebrities look smaller when you meet them in person.
I once heard Berenger's "Substitute" co-star Marc Anthony say that it was hard for his character to try to intimidate Berenger because he is a large man. I guess everything is relative. Anthony looks very slight.

It won't make you shorter. Age and settling of the spinal column will.

I don't know about Tom shrinkinghe did have hip replacement surgery a few years ago to cure an arthritic hip but I can't see him getting shorter because of that.

Thats funny about Patrick6'7" and black..
I work with a Dr. thats 6'9" black and he played basketball. He takes one step to my 4.
I'm 5 ft so everyone is tall to me and you start shrinking the older you get. Yikes!
Tom may be shrinking to. Thanks for clearing that up for us.

I'm 6'1" and 5'11" is about right. Patrick is about my height, but when he was in HS and played varsity basketball, he, like most of the people his age that were raised in the Michael Jordan era, wanted to be 6'7" and black.

I've looked him over and I never thought he was 5'll. Have you posted about your meeting with him? I would love to meet him.

He was a couple inches shorter than 6'1" Richard Jordan (Armistead) in Gettysburg, but like the rest of us aging baby boomers, he's probably shrinking a bit every day. Grrrrrr..

i'd say 5'11.5 in platoon but that is the only movie i remember him in. he was definitely more than 2 inches shorter than john c. mcginely but he was taller than charlie sheen (5'10 i beleive) by at least an inch.
This is the City of the Angels, and you haven't got any wings.

He seems to have plumped up a bit more recently. I say the 5'11 was measured in shoes when he was a bit younger. But with that being said, he was definitely atleast 5'10 in the eighties, as you see him taller than Charlie Sheen and Willem Dafoe in Platoon.