Serge Houde
Acting · Sound
Born February 16, 1953, 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
- 2024Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane — Walter
- Tracker — Kurtis Lauper
- 2023How to Murder Your Husband: The Nancy Brophy Story — Probate Judge
- Murdaugh Murders: The Movie — Jim Griffin
- So Help Me Todd — Edmund Grant
- Surface — Vince Hawkins
- 2021A Christmas Proposal — Bill Pendergast
- 2021A Little Daytime Drama — Walter Fairchild, Walter Fairchild/Ted Gerard)
- 2021Five More Minutes — Edward
- 2021Sealed With a Kiss: Wedding March 6 — Jonny
- 2021The Baker's Son — Jean Pierre
- 2021The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother's Hunt for Justice — Gus Coletti: Caring Neighbour
- 2021V.C. Andrews' Ruby — Jack Landry
- 2020Christmas She Wrote — Brian
- 2020Coffee & Kareem — Jerome
- 2020If I Only Had Christmas — Henry
- 2020Love in Winterland — Walter Sprodling
- Wu Assassins — The Duke
- A Million Little Things — Captain
- 2018Christmas on Holly Lane — Oscar
- 2018Mingle All the Way — Reginald Hoffman
- 2018Wedding March 3: Here Comes the Bride — Johnny
- A Series of Unfortunate Events — Milt
- 2017All of My Heart: Inn Love — Mitchell
- 2017Final Vision — Judge Dupree
- 2017Sleepwalking in Suburbia — Dr. Thorston
- Somewhere Between — Richard Ruskin
- Trial & Error — Milton Buckley
- 2016All Things Valentine — Roy
- 2016Boundaries — Dustin Thorpe
- Chesapeake Shores — Del Granger
- 2016Nine Lives — Stein
- 2016The Wedding March — Johnny
- 2016Who Killed JonBenét? — Attorney Byron Burroughs
- 2015In My Dreams — Older Man
- 2015The Age of Adaline — Good Samaritan
- iZombie — High Priced Lawyer
- 2014Lonesome Dove Church — Charles Stone
- 2014Run for Your Life — Tyler Stone
- 2014Santa Hunters — Principal Welch
- 2013Dangerous Intuition — Detective Debrinsky
- 2013Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures — Dr. Vulnet Grazinar
- 2013End of the World — General Ramis
- 2013Goodnight for Justice: Queen of Hearts — Banker
- Motive — DeAngelo, Prison Guard
- Played — David Thorpe
- Arrow — Judge Brackett
- 2012Hitched for the Holidays — Butch
- 2012Notes from the Heart Healer — Violet's Boss
- 201150/50 — Richard Lerner
- 2011A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! — Mayor
- 2011Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules — Mr. Salz
- Fairly Legal — Dr. Laventhol
- 2011Good Morning, Killer — Vince
- 2011He Loves Me — Butcher
- Hell on Wheels — Oakes Ames
- Mortal Kombat: Legacy — Doctor
- 2011No Surrender — Detective Hank Wilson
- 2011The Kate Logan Affair — Sergent McBean
- The Kennedys — Sam Giancana
- 2010Elopement — Dr. Kazinski
- Human Target — Lecavalier
- 2010Messages Deleted — Det. Breedlove
- Rookie Blue — Anton Hill
- 2009Grace — Henry Matheson
- 2009Iron Road — George Grant
- Iron Road — George Grant
- 2009Personal Effects — Judge Wettick
- 2009The Gambler, The Girl and The Gunslinger — Marshal
- 2009The Good Times Are Killing Me — Cameron Derby
- 2008Boot Camp — Karl
- 2008Demain — Richard
- Fringe — General Hayes, Loyalist Commander
- 2008The American Trap — DEA Agent Thompson
- 2008The Day the Earth Stood Still — Scientist #1
- 2008The Most Wonderful Time of the Year — Stephen Windom
- 2007Destination: Infestation — Captain Dan McReady
- 2007La belle empoisonneuse — M. Angelopoulos
- 2007My Daughter, My Angel — Robert Brault
- Reaper — Cubby Bryce
- 2007Summit Circle — Jean-Pierre Deniger
- 2007The Invisible — Martin Egan
- 2006Air Buddies — Miles Livingstone
- 2006Final Days of Planet Earth — Korshaft
- 2006Four Extraordinary Women — Bill
- 2006Legacy of Fear — Police Chief Ray Blum
- 2006Proof of Lies — Dr. Jack Gannon
- Psych — Vineyard Owner, Hornstock's Dad
- 2006Sisters — Detective Kalen
- 2005Eighteen — Earl
- Supernatural — Dr. Mason, Ed Stoltz
- 2005The Rocket — Connie Smythe
- 2004A Beachcombers Christmas — Randolph Kendall
- 2004Manners of Dying — Harry Parlington
- 2004The Perfect Score — Kurt Dooling
- 2003Paycheck — William Dekker
- John Doe — Sour
- 2002The Adventures of Pluto Nash — FBI Agent
- The Dead Zone — Max Kolchak
- 2001Hidden Agenda — Paul Elkert
- Largo Winch — John Sullivan
- Smallville — John Frankle, Priest
- 2001The Score — Laurent
- 2000Task Force: Caviar — Drolet
- 2000Traitor or Patriot — Vocals
- 2000Wilder — Walker Grimes
- 1999Code Name: Jaguar — CIA Director Price
- 1999Grey Owl — Second Hunter
- 1999P.T. Barnum — John Genin
- P.T. Barnum — John Genin
- 1999Promise Her Anything — Frank Seymour
- 1999Requiem for Murder — P.M. Courtland
- 1999Running Home — Ray
- 1999The Last Breath — Sheriff Mitchum
- 1998Dead End
- 1998Little Men — John Brooke
- 1998Musketeers Forever — Roland Locksley
- 1998The Windsor Protocol
- 1997Dancing on the Moon — Joseph Morrison
- The Hunger — Mr. Bigelow
- 1997The Jackal — Beaufres
- 1997The Peacekeeper — Secretary of Defense
- 1996Hawk's Vengeance — Durkee
- 1996Highway of Heartache — Clive Turnpike
- 1996Midnight in Saint Petersburg — Dr. Vestry
- 1996Natural Enemy — Sherwood
- 1996Pretty Poison — Mueller
- 1995Black List — Ministre Paul Rhéaume
- 1995Les Légendes du Grand Nord
- 1995The Wrong Woman
- 1994Eye of the Wolf — Sergent
- 1994Love & Human Remains — The Cowboy
- 1994Octobre — Pierre Laporte
- 1994Windigo — Freddy Hook
- 1993Look Who's Talking Now! — Maitre D'
- 1993Tomcat: Dangerous Desires — Dr. Pace
- Are You Afraid of the Dark? — Capt. Bill
- 1992Stay Tuned — Father in Yogi Beer Commercial
- 1992The Portrait — John Schroeder
- 1991Omen IV: The Awakening — Morris Creighton
- 1990Empire of Ash III — 2nd Shepherd
- MacGyver — Lawyer