tom hanks was captain miller in saving private ryan.
tom hanks was captain miller in saving private ryan.
who is captain miller in saving private ryan?
tom hanks
growing up in a hollywood family, hurst made a very early start in show business, with a recurring role in the nbc teen situation comedy series "". in the 1998 epic war drama film "saving private ryan", hurst portrayed mandelsohn, a paratrooper who, despite a temporary hearing loss, is able to communicate to captain miller (tom hanks) the approximate location of private ryan. additionally, he appeared in the 2002 war film "we were soldiers" as sgt. ernie savage, played the football player lump hudson in the black comedy thriller film "the ladykillers" (2004), and starred in the tnt police drama series "wanted" (2005). from 2005 to 2007, hurst gained recognition for portraying the recurring role of allison dubois' half-brother, michael benoit, in nbc's supernatural procedural drama series "medium".
ryan hurst
bullet::::- in the film "saving private ryan" (1998), private reiben asks why eight men are sent to save one. corporal timothy e. upham replies with a quote from the poem, "theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die". captain miller responds that it is about their "duty as soldiers" to follow their orders, which supersedes everything, including their mothers, even if they think the mission is doomed to failure. captain miller shows his acquaintance with emerson's works too. these foreshadow the later revelation that captain miller taught english composition at thomas alva edison high school for eleven years before the war.
the charge of the light brigade (poem)