Austin Powers

Sir Austin Danger Powers, played by Mike Myers, is the title character of a series of parodies of 1960s spy films, primarily James Bond, Derek Flint, Harry Palmer, and Matt Helm, and an increasingly broad range of other elements of popular culture.

Trivia

• The Austin Powers Theme (Soul Bossa Nova) by Quincy Jones and produced by DJ Green Lantern was sampled in Ludacris's 2004 Single, "#1 Spot," which was on his album entitled The Red Light District.

The song could be heard in the 1964 movie, The Pawnbroker. Also, it was used as the theme to a 1970s Canadian television game show called "Definition".

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1964 - The Pawnbroker - 1970s

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• Austin's glasses are meant to be a reference to the glasses Michael Caine wore in The Ipcress File. When Caine was cast as Austin Powers' father, Nigel, in Austin Powers in Goldmember, he wore the actual pair of Harry Palmer glasses.