TV series · 1979
Ike
First aired 3 May 1979 Drama / War & Politics TMDB ↗
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
as Narrator (voice)
Wensley Pithey
as Winston Churchill
Stephen Roberts
as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Darren McGavin
as Gen. George S. Patton
William Schallert
as Gen. Mark Clark
Robert Duvall
as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lee Remick
as Kay Summersby
Paul Gleason
as Capt. Ernest 'Tex' Lee
Vincent Marzello
as Mickey McKeogh
Major Wiley
as Sgt. Moaney
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Dana Andrews
as Gen. George C. Marshall
Whit Bissell
as Admiral
Ronald Leigh-Hunt
as Gen. Pagel
J.D. Cannon
as Gen. Walter Bedell Smith
David de Keyser
as FM Sir Alan Brooke
Francis Matthews
as Noël Coward
Charles Gray
as Gen. 'Freddie' de Guingand
Bonnie Bartlett
as Mary 'Mamie' Eisenhower (née Doud)
Richard Herd
as Gen. Omar Bradley
Ian Richardson
as FM Sir Bernard Montgomery
Clifton Jones
as Sgt. Hunt
Julia McKenzie
as Sibyl Bryan
K Callan
as Mrs. Wetserfield
Joe Unger
as Private
Tony Clarkin
as US Sergeant (uncredited)