Ike

Ike

Limited Series 1979 · 3 eps · ★ 7.3 · Drama, War & Politics

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Ike, also known as Ike: The War Years, is a 1979 television miniseries about the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The screenplay by Melville Shavelson is based on Kay Summersby's 1948 memoir Eisenhower Was My Boss and her 1975 autobiography, Past Forgetting: My Love Affair. The series aired from May 3–6, 1979 on ABC. During World War II, General Dwight D. 'Ike' Eisenhower serves as supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Western Europe. On a personal level, he has an extramarital affair with his driver Kay Summersby.

Created by Melville Shavelson

Network: ABC

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Cast

Lowell Thomas Narrator (voice)
Robert Duvall Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lee Remick Kay Summersby
Dana Andrews Gen. George C. Marshall
J.D. Cannon Gen. Walter Bedell Smith
Darren McGavin Gen. George S. Patton
Wensley Pithey Winston Churchill
Paul Gleason Capt. Ernest 'Tex' Lee
Ian Richardson FM Sir Bernard Montgomery
Stephen Roberts President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Schallert Gen. Mark Clark
Vincent Marzello Mickey McKeogh

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