Ike
03/05/1979
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.
TV Show Information
Lowell Thomas
as Narrator (voice)
Robert Duvall
as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lee Remick
as Kay Summersby
Dana Andrews
as Gen. George C. Marshall
J.D. Cannon
as Gen. Walter Bedell Smith
Darren McGavin
as Gen. George S. Patton
Wensley Pithey
as Winston Churchill
Paul Gleason
as Capt. Ernest 'Tex' Lee
Ian Richardson
as FM Sir Bernard Montgomery
Stephen Roberts
as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Schallert
as Gen. Mark Clark
Vincent Marzello
as Mickey McKeogh
Major Wiley
as Sgt. Moaney
