Ike (miniseries)
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.
Ike
United States
English
3
Paul Dixon
Bill Lenny
Kent Schafer
John Woodcock
291 minutes
May 3, 1979
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.