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Ike

Ike
★ 7.3/10•1979•1h 37m•Drama•War & 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.

StatusEnded
Runtime1h 37m
LanguageEN
First Air DateMay 3, 1979

Episodes

Actors

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

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

William Schallert

William Schallert

Gen. Mark Clark

Vincent Marzello

Vincent Marzello

Mickey McKeogh

Major Wiley

Sgt. Moaney

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