Captain Miller needed a translator. After D-Day, the original translator was killed and he needed a replacement. Upham could speak French, German, and English, which made him a valuable asset to the team.
In every military company, there is a soldier or two who are immature, afraid, inexperienced, and who lack the courage to stand up for what they believe and cannot turn to their training. T-5 Timothy E. Upham displayed the characteristics of someone who soldiers used to call a "yellow belly", someone too timid or unwilling to fight. But Upham partly redeemed himself in the end, by both shooting the German to whom Cpt. Miller had shown compassion, as well as compassionately allowing the other Germans to flee. Upham watched the German shoot Miller. Killing that German was the only time Upham fired his weapon! Upham's main problem was he didn't want to be killed or kill-- until that one German disrespected Captain Miller's previous compassion. After watching Miller's courage, he had to kill just that one soldier.
Upham said nothing to the character of Willie. In German, he told the other German soldiers to leave. Willie tried to appeal to Upham to let him go as well, however Upham pulled the trigger, thus ending Willie's ability to kill more Americans' as he did Captain Miller.
Upham said nothing to the character of Willie. In German, he told the other German soldiers to leave. Willie tried to appeal to Upham to let him go as well, however Upham pulled the trigger, thus ending Willie's ability to kill more Americans' as he did Captain Miller.
The name of the German-to-English translator in Saving Private Ryan was Corporal Upham, played by actor Jeremy Davies.
Assuming you mean the captain who won a VC and Bar in World War 2, his name is Charles Hazlitt Upham.
Jeremy Davies as Technician Fifth Grade Timothy E. Upham, a cartographer and interpreter
There is Captain Miller, James Ryan, Mike Horvath, Richard Rieben, Daniel Jackson, Stanley Mellish, Adrian Caparzo, Irwin Wade, Timothy P. Upham, Fred Hamill, Sgt. Hill, Lt. Col. Anderson, and Cpl. Henderson.
Captain Miller picked a squad of men from Company C (Horvath, Reiben, Jackson, Mellish, Wade and Caparzo), along with Corporal Upham of the 29th Infantry Division. Everyone in Miller's squad except Private First Class Richard Reiben and T/5 Upham were killed.Private Adrian Caparzo was killed in the street at Neuville when he unwisely tried to rescue a young girl and was shot by a sniper.Technician 4th Class Irwin Wade, medic, died in the field beside the radar station when a bullet punctured his liver.Private First Class Mellish with Corporal Henderson manned a .30 caliber machine gun in the second story of a heavily damaged building. Henderson was the ranking NCO in charge of the paratroopers at the bridge helped by Miller and the squad.Deeply religious sharp shooter Private Jackson died in the tower when he turned to warn a fellow soldier of an incoming shell.Sgt. Mike Horvath was shot crossing the bridge; he died on the opposite bank of the Merderet River .Cpt Miller died while trying to shoot the tank from his side of the bridge.
Misty Upham's birth name is Misty Anne Upham.
Mary Upham Kelley has written: 'Upham and Amherst, N.H., memories'
Devin Upham is 5' 6".
Ernest Upham died in 1935.