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.
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Movies (37)
Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane
as Walter
2024
How to Murder Your Husband: The Nancy Brophy Story
as Probate Judge
2023
A Christmas Proposal
as Bill Pendergast
2021
Five More Minutes
as Edward
2021
A Little Daytime Drama
as Walter Fairchild
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
2021
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
2020
Mingle All the Way
as Reginald Hoffman
2018
Christmas on Holly Lane
as Oscar
2018
Wedding March 3: Here Comes the Bride
as Johnny
2018
Final Vision
as Judge Dupree
2017
All of My Heart: Inn Love
as Mitchell
2017
Sleepwalking in Suburbia
as Dr. Thorston
2017
Boundaries
as Dustin Thorpe
2016
Who Killed JonBenét?
as Attorney Byron Burroughs
2016
Nine Lives
as Stein
2016
The Wedding March
as Johnny
2016
All Things Valentine
as Roy
2016
In My Dreams
as Older Man
2015
The Age of Adaline
as Good Samaritan
2015
Santa Hunters
as Principal Welch
2014
Run for Your Life
as Tyler Stone
2014
Lonesome Dove Church
as Charles Stone
2014
Dangerous Intuition
as Detective Debrinsky
2013
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
as Dr. Vulnet Grazinar
2013
End of the World
as General Ramis
2013
Goodnight for Justice: Queen of Hearts
as Banker
2013
Hitched for the Holidays
as Butch
2012
Notes from the Heart Healer
as Violet's Boss
2012
Good Morning, Killer
as Vince
2011
50/50
as Richard Lerner
2011
TV Shows (13)
Murdaugh Murders: The Movie
as Jim Griffin
2023
So Help Me Todd
as Edmund Grant
2022
Wu Assassins
as The Duke
2019
A Million Little Things
as Captain
2018
Somewhere Between
as Richard Ruskin
2017
Trial & Error
as Milton Buckley
2017
A Series of Unfortunate Events
as Milt
2017
Chesapeake Shores
as Del Granger
2016
iZombie
as High Priced Lawyer
2015
Played
as David Thorpe
2013
Motive
as DeAngelo
2013
Arrow
as Judge Brackett
2012
Hell on Wheels
as Oakes Ames
2011