Basil Exposition Video | Movie Clips & Character interview

Basil Exposition is a fictional character portrayed by Michael York in a series of 1960s spy-film parodies, known as the Austin Powers series. Basil works for British Intelligence in an indeterminate role as Austin Powers controller. A flashback in the movie Austin Powers in Goldmember shows Basil as attending the Intelligence Academy at the same time as Austin Powers, Dr. Evil and Number...  MORE

Basil Exposition is a fictional character portrayed by Michael York in a series of 1960s spy-film parodies, known as the Austin Powers series. Basil works for British Intelligence in an indeterminate role as Austin Powers controller. A flashback in the movie Austin Powers in Goldmember shows Basil as attending the Intelligence Academy at the same time as Austin Powers, Dr. Evil and Number 2. Even as a schoolboy Basil wore a carnation in his button-hole. His surname, 'Exposition', is a play on a common movie convention, exposition, which is the conveyance of critical elements of plot through dialogue. This parodies the character of M in the James Bond series who establishes the nature of the villain near the beginning of each movie. LESS