Serge Houde
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1953-02-16 (72 years old)
Place of Birth
Québec, Canada
Serge Houde
Biography
Serge Houde (born February 16, 1953) is a Canadian film and television character actor. He is best known for his role in Jon Cassar's Emmy-nominated miniseries The Kennedys playing the notorious Chicago mafia boss Sam Giancana opposite Tom Wilkinson and Barry Pepper. GQ's Tom Carson said Houde's performance was "a terrific Sam Giancana (Serge Houde, and where has this formidable actor been all of Martin Scorsese's life?). It will probably set off Camelot guardians' alarm bells to hear that Giancana, the Chicago Mob boss, appears at all—and tête-à-tête with papa Joe, who's committing hubris's fatal error by negotiating with him." Houde began acting at age 35, and he has over 160 film and TV productions to his credit.
Besides his role as Sam Giancana in The Kennedys, Houde also appeared in the Seth Rogen-starring feature, 50/50, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011. In it, he played Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character's father and Anjelica Huston's character's husband; his character suffered from Alzheimer's. He also starred as The Doctor in episode 9 of Mortal Kombat: Legacy, Kevin Tancharoen's web series anthology inspired by the popular video game of the same name. In 2014, Houde received a Leo Award nomination for Best Guest Performance by a Male in a Dramatic Series for his role as drug kingpin David Thorpe on CTV's undercover cop series Played. The following year, he attracted attention for his moving portrayal of a homeless man suffering from Tourette's in the hit Canadian police drama 19-2.
Known For
Acting
(2024)
Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane
as Walter
(2023)
How to Murder Your Husband: The Nancy Brophy Story
as Probate Judge
(2021)
The Baker's Son
as Jean Pierre
(2021)
Five More Minutes
as Edward
(2021)
The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother's Hunt for Justice
as Gus Coletti: Caring Neighbour
(2021)
A Christmas Proposal
as Bill Pendergast
(2021)
A Little Daytime Drama
as Walter Fairchild
(2021)
A Little Daytime Drama
as Walter Fairchild/Ted Gerard)
(2021)
(2021)
Ruby
as Jack Landry
(2020)
If I Only Had Christmas
as Henry
(2020)
Christmas She Wrote
as Brian
(2020)
Love in Winterland
as Walter Sprodling
(2020)
Coffee & Kareem
as Jerome
(2018)
Christmas on Holly Lane
as Oscar
(2018)
Mingle All the Way
as Reginald Hoffman
(2018)
(2017)
Sleepwalking in Suburbia
as Dr. Thorston
(2017)
Final Vision
as Judge Dupree
(2017)
All of My Heart: Inn Love
as Mitchell
(2016)
Boundaries
as Dustin Thorpe
(2016)
Nine Lives
as Stein
(2016)
Who Killed JonBenét?
as Attorney Byron Burroughs
(2016)
All Things Valentine
as Roy
(2016)
The Wedding March
as Johnny
(2015)
The Age of Adaline
as Good Samaritan
(2015)
In My Dreams
as Older Man
(2014)
Lonesome Dove Church
as Charles Stone
(2014)
Santa Hunters
as Principal Welch
(2014)
Run for Your Life
as Tyler Stone
(2013)
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
as Dr. Vulnet Grazinar
(2013)
Dangerous Intuition
as Detective Debrinsky
(2013)
End of the World
as General Ramis
(2013)
(2012)
Notes from the Heart Healer
as Violet's Boss
(2012)
Hitched for the Holidays
as Butch
(2011)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
as Mr. Salz
(2011)
50/50
as Richard Lerner
(2011)
No Surrender
as Detective Hank Wilson
(2011)
(2011)
Good Morning, Killer
as Vince
(2011)
He Loves Me
as Butcher
(2010)
Elopement
as Dr. Kazinski
(2010)
The Kate Logan Affair
as Sergent McBean
(2010)
Messages Deleted
as Det. Breedlove
(2009)
The Gambler, The Girl and The Gunslinger
as Marshal
(2009)
Iron Road
as George Grant
(2009)
Grace
as Henry Matheson
(2009)
The Good Times Are Killing Me
as Cameron Derby
(2009)
Personal Effects
as Judge Wettick
(2008)
The Day the Earth Stood Still
as Scientist #1
(2008)
Boot Camp
as Karl
(2008)
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
as Stephen Windom
(2008)
The American Trap
as DEA Agent Thompson
(2008)
Demain
as Richard
(2007)
The Invisible
as Martin Egan
(2007)
Destination: Infestation
as Captain Dan McReady
(2007)
My Daughter, My Angel
as Robert Brault
(2007)
Summit Circle
as Jean-Pierre Deniger
(2007)
La belle empoisonneuse
as M. Angelopoulos
(2006)
Final Days of Planet Earth
as Korshaft
(2006)
Proof of Lies
as Dr. Jack Gannon
(2006)
Air Buddies
as Miles Livingstone
(2006)
Legacy of Fear
as Police Chief Ray Blum
(2006)
Four Extraordinary Women
as Bill
(2006)
Sisters
as Detective Kalen
(2005)
Eighteen
as Earl
(2005)
The Rocket
as Connie Smythe
(2004)
A Beachcombers Christmas
as Randolph Kendall
(2004)
The Perfect Score
as Kurt Dooling
(2004)
Manners of Dying
as Harry Parlington
(2003)
Paycheck
as William Dekker
(2001)
The Score
as Laurent
(2001)
Hidden Agenda
as Paul Elkert
(2000)
Wilder
as Walker Grimes
(2000)
Task Force: Caviar
as Drolet
(1999)
Code Name: Jaguar
as CIA Director Price
(1999)
Requiem for Murder
as P.M. Courtland
(1999)
Grey Owl
as Second Hunter
(1999)
Running Home
as Ray
(1999)
The Last Breath
as Sheriff Mitchum
(1999)
P.T. Barnum
as John Genin
(1999)
Promise Her Anything
as Frank Seymour
(1998)
(1998)
Musketeers Forever
as Roland Locksley
(1998)
(1998)
Little Men
as John Brooke
(1997)
The Jackal
as Beaufres
(1997)
The Peacekeeper
as Secretary of Defense
(1997)
Dancing on the Moon
as Joseph Morrison
(1996)
Midnight in Saint Petersburg
as Dr. Vestry
(1996)
Natural Enemy
as Sherwood
(1996)
Hawk's Vengeance
as Durkee
(1996)
Pretty Poison
as Mueller
(1996)
Highway of Heartache
as Clive Turnpike
(1995)
Black List
as Ministre Paul Rhéaume
(1995)
(1995)
(1994)
Love & Human Remains
as The Cowboy
(1994)
Windigo
as Freddy Hook
(1994)
Octobre
as Pierre Laporte
(1994)
Eye of the Wolf
as Sergent
(1993)
Look Who's Talking Now!
as Maitre D'
(1993)
Tomcat: Dangerous Desires
as Dr. Pace
(1992)
Stay Tuned
as Father in Yogi Beer Commercial
(1992)
The Portrait
as John Schroeder
(1991)
Omen IV: The Awakening
as Morris Creighton
Crew
(2000)
Traitor or Patriot
Vocals