Ike
Overview
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)
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
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