IKE (1979)
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Ike
Drama, War & Politics
May 3, 1979 - May 6, 1979
Ended
|1 Season, 3 episodesUnited States
English
ABC
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.
Episode Guide
Cast & Characters
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
Major Wiley
Sgt. Moaney
Tony Clarkin
US Sergeant (uncredited)
Bonnie Bartlett
Mary 'Mamie' Eisenhower (née Doud)
Vernon Dobtcheff
Gen. Charles DeGaulle
Richard Herd
Gen. Omar Bradley
David de Keyser
FM Sir Alan Brooke
Francis Matthews
Noël Coward
Patricia Michael
Gertrude Lawrence
Clifton Jones
Sgt. Hunt
Charles H. Gray
Gen. Lucian Truscott
William Boyett
Gen. Ward Hoffenberg
Don Fellows
Gen. Carl Spaatz
Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Gen. Pagel
Crew
Louis Rudolph
Production
Bill McCutchen
Production
Lynn Stalmaster
Production
Melville Shavelson
Production