
Ike
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.
Last Episode Date: 1979-05-06

Lowell Thomas
Narrator (voice)

Robert Duvall
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Lee Remick
Kay Summersby

Dana Andrews
Gen. George C. Marshall

J.D. Cannon
Gen. Walter Bedell Smith

Darren McGavin
Gen. George S. Patton

Wensley Pithey
Winston Churchill

Paul Gleason
Capt. Ernest 'Tex' Lee

Ian Richardson
FM Sir Bernard Montgomery

William Schallert
Gen. Mark Clark