Ike 1979
Created by Melville Shavelson
- Drama, War & Politics
- 97 min episodes
- 1 season
- 3 episodes
- Ended
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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Cast
- Lowell ThomasNarrator (voice)
- Robert DuvallGen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Lee RemickKay Summersby
- Dana AndrewsGen. George C. Marshall
- J.D. CannonGen. Walter Bedell Smith
- Darren McGavinGen. George S. Patton
- Wensley PitheyWinston Churchill
- Paul GleasonCapt. Ernest 'Tex' Lee
- Ian RichardsonFM Sir Bernard Montgomery
- Stephen RobertsPresident Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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- Melville ShavelsonCreator
- Fred KarlinOriginal Music Composer
- Bill LennyEditor
- John WoodcockEditor
- Bill McCutchenProducer
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- Miniseries3 eps · 1979
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