Ike
tv show
3 total episodes
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1 seasons
First Aired May 03, 1979
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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.
Cast
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
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Stephen Roberts
as
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
William Schallert
as
Gen. Mark Clark
Vincent Marzello
as
Mickey McKeogh
Crew
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Peter Murton
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Art Direction
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Ward Preston
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Art Direction
Boris Sagal
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Director
Melville Shavelson
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Director
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John Woodcock
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Editor
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Bill Lenny
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Editor
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Paul Dixon
as
Editor
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Kent Schafer
as
Editor
Melville Shavelson
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Executive Producer
Lynn Stalmaster
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Casting Director
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Louis Rudolph
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Executive Producer
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Bill McCutchen
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Producer