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About
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.
First Aired
May 3, 1979
Last Aired
May 6, 1979
Seasons
1
Episodes
3
Studio
ABC Circle Films
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Cast
Full credits →L
Lowell Thomas
Narrator (voice)
Robert Duvall
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
L
Lee Remick
Kay Summersby
D
Dana Andrews
Gen. George C. Marshall
J
J.D. Cannon
Gen. Walter Bedell Smith
D
Darren McGavin
Gen. George S. Patton
W
Wensley Pithey
Winston Churchill
P
Paul Gleason
Capt. Ernest 'Tex' Lee
I
Ian Richardson
FM Sir Bernard Montgomery
S
Stephen Roberts
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
W
William Schallert
Gen. Mark Clark
V
Vincent Marzello
Mickey McKeogh
M
Major Wiley
Sgt. Moaney
