Serge Houde
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
Credits
- 2024 · Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane as Walter
- 2023 · Murdaugh Murders: The Movie as Jim Griffin
- 2023 · How to Murder Your Husband: The Nancy Brophy Story as Probate Judge
- 2022 · So Help Me Todd as Edmund Grant
- 2021 · A Christmas Proposal as Bill Pendergast
- 2021 · Five More Minutes as Edward
- 2021 · A Little Daytime Drama as Walter Fairchild
- 2021 · A Little Daytime Drama as Walter Fairchild/Ted Gerard)
- 2021 · Sealed With a Kiss: Wedding March 6 as Jonny
- 2021 · The Baker's Son as Jean Pierre
- 2021 · Ruby as Jack Landry
- 2021 · The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother's Hunt for Justice as Gus Coletti: Caring Neighbour
- 2020 · Christmas She Wrote as Brian
- 2020 · If I Only Had Christmas as Henry
- 2020 · Coffee & Kareem as Jerome
- 2020 · Love in Winterland as Walter Sprodling
- 2019 · Wu Assassins as The Duke
- 2018 · Mingle All the Way as Reginald Hoffman
- 2018 · Christmas on Holly Lane as Oscar
- 2018 · A Million Little Things as Captain
- 2018 · Wedding March 3: Here Comes the Bride as Johnny
- 2017 · Final Vision as Judge Dupree
- 2017 · All of My Heart: Inn Love as Mitchell
- 2017 · Somewhere Between as Richard Ruskin
- 2017 · Sleepwalking in Suburbia as Dr. Thorston
- 2017 · Trial & Error as Milton Buckley
- 2017 · A Series of Unfortunate Events as Milt
- 2016 · Boundaries as Dustin Thorpe
- 2016 · Who Killed JonBenét? as Attorney Byron Burroughs
- 2016 · Chesapeake Shores as Del Granger
- 2016 · Nine Lives as Stein
- 2016 · The Wedding March as Johnny
- 2016 · All Things Valentine as Roy
- 2015 · In My Dreams as Older Man
- 2015 · The Age of Adaline as Good Samaritan
- 2015 · iZombie as High Priced Lawyer
- 2014 · Santa Hunters as Principal Welch
- 2014 · Run for Your Life as Tyler Stone
- 2014 · Lonesome Dove Church as Charles Stone
- 2013 · Dangerous Intuition as Detective Debrinsky
- 2013 · Played as David Thorpe
- 2013 · Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures as Dr. Vulnet Grazinar
- 2013 · End of the World as General Ramis
- 2013 · Motive as DeAngelo
- 2013 · Motive as Prison Guard
- 2013 · Goodnight for Justice: Queen of Hearts as Banker
- 2012 · Hitched for the Holidays as Butch
- 2012 · Arrow as Judge Brackett
- 2012 · Notes from the Heart Healer as Violet's Boss
- 2011 · Good Morning, Killer as Vince
- 2011 · Hell on Wheels as Oakes Ames
- 2011 · 50/50 as Richard Lerner
- 2011 · A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! as Mayor
- 2011 · Mortal Kombat: Legacy as Doctor
- 2011 · The Kennedys as Sam Giancana
- 2011 · Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules as Mr. Salz
- 2011 · No Surrender as Detective Hank Wilson
- 2011 · He Loves Me as Butcher
- 2010 · The Kate Logan Affair as Sergent McBean
- 2010 · Rookie Blue as Anton Hill
- 2010 · Elopement as Dr. Kazinski
- 2010 · Messages Deleted as Det. Breedlove
- 2009 · The Good Times Are Killing Me as Cameron Derby
- 2009 · Grace as Henry Matheson
- 2009 · Iron Road as George Grant
- 2009 · The Gambler, The Girl and The Gunslinger as Marshal
- 2009 · Iron Road as George Grant
- 2009 · Personal Effects as Judge Wettick
- 2008 · The Most Wonderful Time of the Year as Stephen Windom
- 2008 · The Day the Earth Stood Still as Scientist #1
- 2008 · Demain as Richard
- 2008 · Fringe as General Hayes
- 2008 · Fringe as Loyalist Commander
- 2008 · The American Trap as DEA Agent Thompson
- 2008 · Boot Camp as Karl
- 2007 · La belle empoisonneuse as M. Angelopoulos
- 2007 · Summit Circle as Jean-Pierre Deniger
- 2007 · Destination: Infestation as Captain Dan McReady
- 2007 · The Invisible as Martin Egan
- 2007 · My Daughter, My Angel as Robert Brault
- 2006 · Air Buddies as Miles Livingstone
- 2006 · Legacy of Fear as Police Chief Ray Blum
- 2006 · Sisters as Detective Kalen
- 2006 · Four Extraordinary Women as Bill
- 2006 · Proof of Lies as Dr. Jack Gannon
- 2006 · Psych as Vineyard Owner
- 2006 · Psych as Hornstock's Dad
- 2006 · Final Days of Planet Earth as Korshaft
- 2005 · The Rocket as Connie Smythe
- 2005 · Supernatural as Dr. Mason
- 2005 · Supernatural as Ed Stoltz
- 2005 · Eighteen as Earl
- 2004 · A Beachcombers Christmas as Randolph Kendall
- 2004 · Manners of Dying as Harry Parlington
- 2004 · The Perfect Score as Kurt Dooling
- 2003 · Paycheck as William Dekker
- 2002 · The Dead Zone as Max Kolchak
- 2001 · Smallville as John Frankle
- 2001 · Smallville as Priest
- 2001 · The Score as Laurent
- 2001 · Hidden Agenda as Paul Elkert
- 2001 · Largo Winch as John Sullivan
- 2000 · Wilder as Walker Grimes
- 2000 · Task Force: Caviar as Drolet
- 1999 · Code Name: Jaguar as CIA Director Price
- 1999 · Grey Owl as Second Hunter
- 1999 · P.T. Barnum as John Genin
- 1999 · Promise Her Anything as Frank Seymour
- 1999 · Requiem for Murder as P.M. Courtland
- 1999 · The Last Breath as Sheriff Mitchum
- 1999 · Running Home as Ray
- 1998 · Musketeers Forever as Roland Locksley
- 1998 · The Windsor Protocol as
- 1998 · Dead End as
- 1998 · Little Men as John Brooke
- 1997 · The Jackal as Beaufres
- 1997 · The Peacekeeper as Secretary of Defense
- 1997 · The Hunger as Mr. Bigelow
- 1997 · Dancing on the Moon as Joseph Morrison
- 1996 · Natural Enemy as Sherwood
- 1996 · Midnight in Saint Petersburg as Dr. Vestry
- 1996 · Pretty Poison as Mueller
- 1996 · Hawk's Vengeance as Durkee
- 1996 · Highway of Heartache as Clive Turnpike
- 1995 · Black List as Ministre Paul Rhéaume
- 1995 · The Wrong Woman as
- 1995 · Les Légendes du Grand Nord as
- 1994 · Octobre as Pierre Laporte
- 1994 · Windigo as Freddy Hook
- 1994 · Love & Human Remains as The Cowboy
- 1994 · Eye of the Wolf as Sergent
- 1993 · Look Who's Talking Now! as Maitre D'
- 1993 · Tomcat: Dangerous Desires as Dr. Pace
- 1992 · The Portrait as John Schroeder
- 1992 · Stay Tuned as Father in Yogi Beer Commercial
- 1991 · Omen IV: The Awakening as Morris Creighton
- 1985 · MacGyver as Lawyer