Germain Houde
Germain Houde (born December 14, 1952) is a Genie Award-winning Canadian actor from Petit-Saguenay, Quebec. He has usually played tough-guy parts; his screen characters have ranged from cruel criminals to corrupt policemen. A graduate of the Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique de Québec, Houde spent his early years in theatre including time with an experimental troupe in England. His first cinematic role was in Anne Claire Poirier’s acclaimed A Scream from Silence (Mourir à tue-tête), where he played a vicious rapist. He has won two Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for his roles in Good Riddance (Les bons débarras) and Night Zoo (Un Zoo la nuit). His other roles have included the television series Omerta, Les Filles de Caleb, Les Invincibles and Vertige, and the films Prettykill, Love Me (Love-moi), Terminal City Ricochet, Léolo, Jerome's Secret, Fear of Water (La Peur de l'eau) and 2 Frogs in the West.
47 acting credits
Acting · 47
Les Enfants de la télé
2010
En direct de l'univers
2009
Sorcières
2023
Viens voir les comédiens
2002
No Return
2022
Tic tac show
2013
Victor Lessard
2017
Le clan
2015
Avec un grand A
1986
On passe à l'Histoire
2013
Léolo
1992
Alerte Amber
2019
Emilie
1990
Les Invincibles
2005
La promesse
2005
Vertige
2012
Les filles de Caleb: l'histoire d'une passion
2025
Pretty Kill
1987
En résidence
2024
The Broken Line
2008
Terminal City Ricochet
1990
Lucien Brouillard
1983
2 Frogs in the West
2010
Craque la vie!
1994
Matusalem II: le dernier des Beauchesne
1997
Caserne 24
1998
The Outlander
2005
The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy
1988
On My Mother's Side
2016
Fear of Water
2012
Night Zoo
1987
A Scream from Silence
1979
La nuit avec Hortense
1988
Jerome's Secret
1994
Good Riddance
1980
Four Stiffs and a Trombone
1991
Marie-Soleil et Jean-Claude: au-delà des étoiles
2022
Saint Martyrs of the Damned
2005
The Happiness of Others
2011
The Revenge of the Woman in Black
1997
La Bolduc
2018
L’est de la brúixola
2005
Love-moi
1991
The Mysterious Miss C.
2002
Lonely Child: The Imaginary World of Claude Vivier
1989
Heads or Tails
2018
Shellgame
1985