The 7-foot, 8-inch former Virginia cop and Harlem Globetrotter known as a “gentle giant” has died at his family home North ...

At 7-foot-8, George Bell held the record as the tallest living man in America at one point, and he also spent time as a Norfolk sheriff's deputy and a Harlem Globetrotter. Dawnié Bell always knew ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – George Bell, a former Harlem Globetrotter, actor and law enforcement officer who held the record for the tallest man in America, has died at age 67. Called a “gentle ...

Bell, who was born in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1957, stood at an astounding seven-foot-eight-inches and was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2007 as the tallest man in America.

America’s tallest ... difficult time.” The cause and date of his death weren’t immediately clear Thursday. Born in Portsmouth, Va. in 1957, Bell was first awarded the tallest-man title ...