Ike (1979)

7.3 May 3, 1979 ~97m / ep 1 Season Ended
DramaWar & Politics

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.

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Cast

  • Lowell Thomas

    Lowell Thomas

    Narrator (voice)

  • Robert Duvall

    Robert Duvall

    Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • Lee Remick

    Lee Remick

    Kay Summersby

  • Dana Andrews

    Dana Andrews

    Gen. George C. Marshall

  • J.D. Cannon

    J.D. Cannon

    Gen. Walter Bedell Smith

  • Darren McGavin

    Darren McGavin

    Gen. George S. Patton

  • Wensley Pithey

    Wensley Pithey

    Winston Churchill

  • Paul Gleason

    Paul Gleason

    Capt. Ernest 'Tex' Lee

  • Ian Richardson

    Ian Richardson

    FM Sir Bernard Montgomery

  • Stephen Roberts

    Stephen Roberts

    President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

  • William Schallert

    William Schallert

    Gen. Mark Clark

  • Vincent Marzello

    Vincent Marzello

    Mickey McKeogh

  • Major Wiley

    Major Wiley

    Sgt. Moaney

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