Ike (1979)
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.
Drama, War & Politics
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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