Ike
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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Lowell Thomas
Narrator (voice) · 3 eps
Robert Duvall
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower · 3 eps
Lee Remick
Kay Summersby · 3 eps
Dana Andrews
Gen. George C. Marshall · 3 eps
J.D. Cannon
Gen. Walter Bedell Smith · 3 eps
Darren McGavin
Gen. George S. Patton · 3 eps
Wensley Pithey
Winston Churchill · 3 eps
Paul Gleason
Capt. Ernest 'Tex' Lee · 3 eps
Ian Richardson
FM Sir Bernard Montgomery · 3 eps
Stephen Roberts
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt · 3 eps
William Schallert
Gen. Mark Clark · 3 eps
Vincent Marzello
Mickey McKeogh · 3 eps
Major Wiley
Sgt. Moaney · 3 eps
Tony Clarkin
US Sergeant (uncredited) · 3 eps
Bonnie Bartlett
Mary 'Mamie' Eisenhower (née Doud) · 2 eps
Vernon Dobtcheff
Gen. Charles DeGaulle · 2 eps
Richard Herd
Gen. Omar Bradley · 2 eps
David de Keyser
FM Sir Alan Brooke · 2 eps
Francis Matthews
Noël Coward · 2 eps
Patricia Michael
Gertrude Lawrence · 2 eps
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