6.5

1 hr 37 min

1979-05-03

2

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.

Drama

War & Politics

Trailers

Characters

Lowell Thomas

Lowell Thomas

Narrator (voice)

Robert Duvall

Robert Duvall

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Lee Remick

Lee Remick

Kay Summersby

Dana Andrews

Dana Andrews

Gen. George C. Marshall

J.D. Cannon

J.D. Cannon

Gen. Walter Bedell Smith

Darren McGavin

Darren McGavin

Gen. George S. Patton

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