Ike (miniseries)
Appearance
Ike | |
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Genre | Historical Drama |
Written by | Melville Shavelson |
Directed by | Boris Sagal and Melville Shavelson |
Starring | |
Composer | Fred Karlin |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 3 |
Production | |
Producer | Bill McCutchen |
Editors | Paul Dixon Bill Lenny Kent Schafer John Woodcock |
Running time | 291 minutes |
Original release | |
Release | May 3, 1979 |
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
- Vernon Dobtcheff: Gen. Charles DeGaulle
- Robert Duvall: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Terence Alexander: Gen. Arthur Tedder
- Dana Andrews: Gen. George C. Marshall
- Bonnie Bartlett: Mamie Eisenhower
- Whit Bissell: Admiral
- William Boyett: Gen. Ward Hoffenberg
- K. Callan: Mrs Westerfield
- J.D. Cannon: Gen. Walter Bedell Smith
- David de Keyser: Field Marshall Sir Alan Brooke
- Lee Remick: Kay Summersby
External links
Categories:
- 1970s American television miniseries
- Television series produced at Pinewood Studios
- Television series set in the 1940s
- American World War II films
- Cultural depictions of Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Cultural depictions of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Cultural depictions of George S. Patton
- Cultural depictions of Charles de Gaulle
- Cultural depictions of Winston Churchill
- Films directed by Boris Sagal
- World War II film stubs