Ike, also known as Ike: The War Years, is a 1979 television miniseries about the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower, mostly focusing on his time as Supreme Commander in Europe during World War II. The screenplay, written by Melville Shavelson, was based on Kay Summersby's 1948 memoir Eisenhower Was My Boss and her 1975 autobiography, Past Forgetting: My Love Affair.
Directed by Boris Sagal and Melville Shavelson, the production starred Robert Duvall as Eisenhower and Lee Remick as Kay Summersby. Film editors John Woodcock and Bill Lenny won an Eddie Award for their work and the series garnered five Emmy Award nominations.
Cast
Robert Duvall: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower Vernon Dobtcheff: Gen. Charles de Gaulle Darren McGavin: Gen. George S. Patton Lee Remick: Kay Summersby Wensley Pithey: Winston Churchill Terence Alexander: Gen. Arthur Tedder Dana Andrews: Gen. George C. Marshall Richard Herd: Gen. Omar Bradley Paul Gleason: Capt. Ernest "Tex" Lee Bonnie Bartlett: Mamie Eisenhower William Schallert: Gen. Mark Clark Whit Bissell: Admiral William Boyett: Gen. Ward Hoffenberg K. Callan: Mrs Westerfield J.D. Cannon: Gen. Walter Bedell Smith David de Keyser: Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke Don Fellows: Gen. Carl Spaatz Ian Richardson: Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery Mark Kingston: Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory Wolfgang Preiss: Gen. Alfred Jodl Martin Jarvis: King George VI Maurice Marsac: Gen. Henri Giraud Clifford Earl: Lord Louis Mountbatten Francis Matthews: Noël Coward Stephen Roberts: Franklin D. Roosevelt
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