Serge Houde
Acting
1953-02-16 · Québec, Canada
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.
Filmography
Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane
2024 · Movie
Tracker
2024 · Series
Murdaugh Murders: The Movie
2023 · Series
How to Murder Your Husband: The Nancy Brophy Story
2023 · Movie
So Help Me Todd
2022 · Series
Surface
2022 · Series
A Christmas Proposal
2021 · Movie
Five More Minutes
2021 · Movie
A Little Daytime Drama
2021 · Movie
Sealed With a Kiss: Wedding March 6
2021 · Movie
The Baker's Son
2021 · Movie
Ruby
2021 · Movie
The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother's Hunt for Justice
2021 · Movie
Christmas She Wrote
2020 · Movie
If I Only Had Christmas
2020 · Movie
Coffee & Kareem
2020 · Movie
Love in Winterland
2020 · Movie
Wu Assassins
2019 · Series
Mingle All the Way
2018 · Movie
Christmas on Holly Lane
2018 · Movie
A Million Little Things
2018 · Series
Wedding March 3: Here Comes the Bride
2018 · Movie
Final Vision
2017 · Movie
All of My Heart: Inn Love
2017 · Movie
Somewhere Between
2017 · Series
Sleepwalking in Suburbia
2017 · Movie
Trial & Error
2017 · Series
A Series of Unfortunate Events
2017 · Series
Boundaries
2016 · Movie
Who Killed JonBenét?
2016 · Movie
Chesapeake Shores
2016 · Series
Nine Lives
2016 · Movie
The Wedding March
2016 · Movie
All Things Valentine
2016 · Movie
In My Dreams
2015 · Movie
The Age of Adaline
2015 · Movie
iZombie
2015 · Series
Santa Hunters
2014 · Movie
Run for Your Life
2014 · Movie
Lonesome Dove Church
2014 · Movie
Dangerous Intuition
2013 · Movie
Played
2013 · Series
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
2013 · Movie
End of the World
2013 · Movie
Motive
2013 · Series
Goodnight for Justice: Queen of Hearts
2013 · Movie
Hitched for the Holidays
2012 · Movie
Arrow
2012 · Series
Notes from the Heart Healer
2012 · Movie
Good Morning, Killer
2011 · Movie
Hell on Wheels
2011 · Series
50/50
2011 · Movie
A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!
2011 · Movie
Mortal Kombat: Legacy
2011 · Series
The Kennedys
2011 · Series
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
2011 · Movie
No Surrender
2011 · Movie
He Loves Me
2011 · Movie
Fairly Legal
2011 · Series
The Kate Logan Affair
2010 · Movie
Rookie Blue
2010 · Series
Elopement
2010 · Movie
Messages Deleted
2010 · Movie
Human Target
2010 · Series
The Good Times Are Killing Me
2009 · Movie
Grace
2009 · Movie
Iron Road
2009 · Series
The Gambler, The Girl and The Gunslinger
2009 · Movie
Iron Road
2009 · Movie
Personal Effects
2009 · Movie
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
2008 · Movie
The Day the Earth Stood Still
2008 · Movie
Demain
2008 · Movie
Fringe
2008 · Series
The American Trap
2008 · Movie
Boot Camp
2008 · Movie
La belle empoisonneuse
2007 · Movie
Reaper
2007 · Series
Summit Circle
2007 · Movie
Destination: Infestation
2007 · Movie
The Invisible
2007 · Movie
My Daughter, My Angel
2007 · Movie
Air Buddies
2006 · Movie
Legacy of Fear
2006 · Movie
Sisters
2006 · Movie
Four Extraordinary Women
2006 · Movie
Proof of Lies
2006 · Movie
Psych
2006 · Series
Final Days of Planet Earth
2006 · Movie
The Rocket
2005 · Movie
Supernatural
2005 · Series
Eighteen
2005 · Movie
A Beachcombers Christmas
2004 · Movie
Manners of Dying
2004 · Movie
The Perfect Score
2004 · Movie
Paycheck
2003 · Movie
John Doe
2002 · Series
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
2002 · Movie
The Dead Zone
2002 · Series
Smallville
2001 · Series
The Score
2001 · Movie
Hidden Agenda
2001 · Movie
Largo Winch
2001 · Series
Wilder
2000 · Movie
Task Force: Caviar
2000 · Movie
Traitor or Patriot
2000 · Movie
Code Name: Jaguar
1999 · Movie
Grey Owl
1999 · Movie
P.T. Barnum
1999 · Series
P.T. Barnum
1999 · Movie
Promise Her Anything
1999 · Movie
Requiem for Murder
1999 · Movie
The Last Breath
1999 · Movie
Running Home
1999 · Movie
Musketeers Forever
1998 · Movie
The Windsor Protocol
1998 · Movie
Dead End
1998 · Movie
Little Men
1998 · Movie
The Jackal
1997 · Movie
The Peacekeeper
1997 · Movie
The Hunger
1997 · Series
Dancing on the Moon
1997 · Movie
Natural Enemy
1996 · Movie
Midnight in Saint Petersburg
1996 · Movie
Pretty Poison
1996 · Movie
Hawk's Vengeance
1996 · Movie
Highway of Heartache
1996 · Movie
Black List
1995 · Movie
The Wrong Woman
1995 · Movie
Les Légendes du Grand Nord
1995 · Movie
Octobre
1994 · Movie
Windigo
1994 · Movie
Love & Human Remains
1994 · Movie
Eye of the Wolf
1994 · Movie
Look Who's Talking Now!
1993 · Movie
Tomcat: Dangerous Desires
1993 · Movie
The Portrait
1992 · Movie
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
1992 · Series
Stay Tuned
1992 · Movie
Omen IV: The Awakening
1991 · Movie
Empire of Ash III
1990 · Movie
MacGyver
1985 · Series