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Ike

Created by: Melville Shavelson

7.3 3

1979

1h 37m

1 season

DramaWar & Politics

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.

Seasons

Miniseries

Cast

Narrator (voice)

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Gen. George C. Marshall

Gen. Walter Bedell Smith

Gen. George S. Patton

Winston Churchill

Capt. Ernest 'Tex' Lee

FM Sir Bernard Montgomery

Stephen Roberts

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

William Schallert

Gen. Mark Clark

Vincent Marzello

US Sergeant (uncredited)

Bonnie Bartlett

Mary 'Mamie' Eisenhower (née Doud)

Vernon Dobtcheff

Gen. Charles DeGaulle

Gen. Omar Bradley

David de Keyser

FM Sir Alan Brooke

Francis Matthews

Patricia Michael

Gertrude Lawrence

Charles H. Gray

Gen. Lucian Truscott

Gen. Ward Hoffenberg

Gen. Carl Spaatz

Ronald Leigh-Hunt

Richard McKenzie

Gen. Henri Giraud

Redmond Gleeson

Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory

Gen. 'Freddie' de Guingand

Terence Alexander

Gen. Arthur Tedder

Michael Malnick

Mrs. Wetserfield

Laurence Luckinbill

Maj. Richard Arnold

Patrick Culliton

Young Lieutenant

Lord Mountbatten

Admiral with pointer

Richard Sanders

Wolfgang Preiss

Gen. Alfred Jodl