Ike (miniseries)
| Ike | |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Editors | Paul Dixon Bill Lenny Kent Schafer John Woodcock |
| Running time | 291 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original release | May 3, 1979 |
Ike is a 1979 television miniseries about the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower, with heavy concentration on the time he went to Europe during World War II to serve as Supreme Commander. The screenplay 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 and Bill Lenny won an Eddie Award for their work and the series garnered five Emmy Award nominations.
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Categories:
- 1970s American television miniseries
- Television series produced at Pinewood Studios
- Television series set in the 1940s
- 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