Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 16, 1953
Place of Birth
Québec, Canada
Credits
142 titles
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
Filmography
Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane
Walter
Tracker
Kurtis Lauper
Murdaugh Murders: The Movie
Jim Griffin
How to Murder Your Husband: The Nancy Brophy Story
Probate Judge
So Help Me Todd
Edmund Grant
Surface
Vince Hawkins
A Christmas Proposal
Bill Pendergast
Five More Minutes
Edward
A Little Daytime Drama
Walter Fairchild
Sealed With a Kiss: Wedding March 6
Jonny
The Baker's Son
Jean Pierre
Ruby
Jack Landry
The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother's Hunt for Justice
Gus Coletti: Caring Neighbour
Christmas She Wrote
Brian
If I Only Had Christmas
Henry
Coffee & Kareem
Jerome
Love in Winterland
Walter Sprodling
Wu Assassins
The Duke
Mingle All the Way
Reginald Hoffman
Christmas on Holly Lane
Oscar
A Million Little Things
Captain
Wedding March 3: Here Comes the Bride
Johnny
Final Vision
Judge Dupree
All of My Heart: Inn Love
Mitchell
Somewhere Between
Richard Ruskin
Sleepwalking in Suburbia
Dr. Thorston
Trial & Error
Milton Buckley
A Series of Unfortunate Events
Milt
Boundaries
Dustin Thorpe
Who Killed JonBenét?
Attorney Byron Burroughs
Chesapeake Shores
Del Granger
Nine Lives
Stein
The Wedding March
Johnny
All Things Valentine
Roy
In My Dreams
Older Man
The Age of Adaline
Good Samaritan
iZombie
High Priced Lawyer
Santa Hunters
Principal Welch
Run for Your Life
Tyler Stone
Lonesome Dove Church
Charles Stone
Dangerous Intuition
Detective Debrinsky
Played
David Thorpe
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
Dr. Vulnet Grazinar
End of the World
General Ramis
Motive
DeAngelo
Goodnight for Justice: Queen of Hearts
Banker
Hitched for the Holidays
Butch
Arrow
Judge Brackett
Notes from the Heart Healer
Violet's Boss
Good Morning, Killer
Vince