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Poll: Little Big Guys

Jebediah Springfield once said "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man". We can all say "Amen!" to that.

Yet, as true as it is, this creed wasn't fully embraced by Hollywood where heightism seems to have prevailed for decades and decades, allowing only a few vertically challenged actors to portray heroic characters instead of the usual sidekicks, comic reliefs, or vile antagonists from the sneaky traitors to the villains with 'Napoleon Complex'.

Celebrating the "little big guys" of cinema, which of these heroic characters played by actors under 5'8 is your favorite?

After voting, you may discuss the list here

(only male adult roles, characters over 20, and no member of a group or creatures of naturally small size)

Results of 944 votes:

  1. 1.

    Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon (1973)

     
    Bruce Lee as Lee in Enter the Dragon
  2. 2.

    Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt

     
    Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in the Mission Impossible series
  3. 3.

    Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society (1989)

     
    Robin Williams as John Keating in Dead Poets Society

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