Inglourious Basterds & 9 Other Movies You Forgot Mike Myers Was In

While Mike Myers is best known for his physical comedy and caricatures, he has had a few dramatic roles and oft-forgotten parts in other movies.

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With few exceptions, it seems like Mike Myers has only ever been in films from a handful of franchises – Shrek, Austin Powers, and Wayne’s World. Other than appearances in documentaries, these three franchises make up most of his filmography. He didn’t even appear on the big screen until the success of his SNL allowed him and costar Dana Carvey to make the first Wayne’s World movie.

Leaving out the franchises leaves a few surprising roles for the funnyman – he’s even managed to appear in a couple of dramas and these films deserve a watch for any fan who wants to check out a man known for such over the top antics playing against type.

10 Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

In this iconic biopic about the life of legendary Queen frontman, Freddie Mercury, Myers plays Ray Foster, who refuses to release the band’s now-iconic single “Bohemian Rhapsody” as a single. This leads Mercury to convince DJ Kenny Everett to play the song on his show without the record company’s blessing.

Obviously, the song became a hit and remains one of the band’s most well-known songs to this day. It was a bit of stunt casting Mike Myers on the studio’s part – the song was launched to a second wave of popularity on the back of Myer’s hit movie, Wayne’s World in 1992.

9 Terminal (2018)

This thriller stars Margot Robbie (oft considered one of the best actresses of her generation), a woman who meets a mysterious employer and makes a deal with him that she will be the only person he uses as his contract killer if she is able to take out all of his other hired killers.

The employer, played by Myers, agrees to the plan and helps it along as needed via commands to his current stable of contracted guns. As the movie nears its conclusion, the audience is treated to a rather surprising twist ending.

8 Inglorious Basterds (2009)

In Inglourious Basterds, Myers portrays Ed Fenech, a British general. He’s not in the movie for long, appearing in just one scene in which he sends British soldier and German film expert Lieutenant Archie Hicox (Michael Fassbender) to join The Basterds on the mainland.

Fenech’s plan is what sets the events of the movie into motion – assassinate the German High Command at a movie premiere. Myers was actually cast in the movie at his own request, being both a fan of Tarantino — and the child of parents who were in the British service.

7 The Love Guru (2008)

While fans probably didn’t forget Myers was in this movie, they may have forgotten it ever existed. The Love Guru was seemingly an attempt to hit whatever spot in movie-going appetites that the Austin Powers series had fed, with Myers playing a guru that’s only actually reminiscent of the parody spy’s charms in that he’s an over the top caricature.

Presumably, Guru Pitka is a sendup of Deepak Chopra, the real-life guru Pitka is constantly referencing when he talks about him being the number one in his field.

6 View From the Top (2003)

Gwyneth Paltrow stars in this early aughts romantic comedy as Donna, a small-town girl who wants to leave her life in a trailer park with her abusive parents. After meeting a former flight attendant at a bar and learning the woman is writing a book about her travels, Donna decides that this is the life she wants for herself.

After some time at a small budget airline, she manages to get hired into a new training group at a major company, where she encounters Myers – playing a bitter and grouchy trainer who can never quite let go of never being able to fly himself because of a crossed eye.

5 Mystery, Alaska (1999)

If you’re a fan of the underdog dramadies that were seemingly all over the place in the 90s, Mystery, Alaska is just the movie for you. A small town in Canada is hockey-obsessed and has a weekly game to scratch their itch.

After the game is written about in Sports Illustrated, the NHL decides they want to send the New York Rangers to the town and televise the two teams playing an exhibition match. Myers shows up a commentator during the game, a character based on the legendary commentator, Don Cherry.

4 Pete’s Meteor (1998)

This Irish movie is, despite having Myers in it, is a drama. In Pete’s Meteor, three children live with their grandmother in Dublin after the death of their parents. A meteor crashes to earth in their backyard, and the children take it as a sign from their parents who they believe now live in the stars.

The government arrives and takes the meteor away, sending it off to be analyzed. Mickey, the oldest kid, wants this presumed message from his dead mom and dad back. He finds some help in the form of his Uncle Pete (Myers), who is a junkie in some kind of trouble with the local mob.

3 The Thin Pink Line (1998)

The cast of this mockumentary (a thinly veiled sendup of 1988 real documentary, The Thin Blue Line) is practically a who’s who of celebs from the late 90s and early 2000s. There are two actors from Friends, what seems like half of SNL, and a generous handful of famous comedians.

2 54 (1998)

A drama focused on the iconic Studio 54 in New York City during the late 1970s, 54 tells the story of Shane (Ryan Phillipe), who leaves his Jersey home to move to the hard-partying disco era city. He becomes a bartender at the titular disco, and his life gets 70s-crazy.

After a death at the club one night, he refuses to keep working in the face of tragedy and is immediately fired. Club owner Rubell (Myers) is promptly and satisfying raided by the FBI, having been discovered to be evading taxes. Shane and his friends all go their separate ways, meeting years down the road for a one night only party at Studio 54.

1 So I Married An Axe Murderer (1993)

His first non-Wayne’s World (and non-SNL-related) film, So I Married an Axe Murderer sees Myers as Charlie, a beat poet in San Francisco who can’t seem to stay in a relationship. When his detective friend gets on his case for his often made-up reasons for ending relationships, Charlie meets Harriet.

After a warning from Harriet’s sister to be careful, Charlie becomes convinced that Harriet is a woman wanted for the brutal murder of several husbands.

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