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.
140 acting credits
Acting · 140
Supernatural
2005
Tracker
2024
Smallville
2001
Arrow
2012
Psych
2006
Fringe
2008
MacGyver
1985
Hell on Wheels
2011
The Dead Zone
2002
iZombie
2015
A Million Little Things
2018
Rookie Blue
2010
A Series of Unfortunate Events
2017
Chesapeake Shores
2016
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
1992
Motive
2013
So Help Me Todd
2022
Human Target
2010
Reaper
2007
The Hunger
1997
Surface
2022
John Doe
2002
Mortal Kombat: Legacy
2011
Trial & Error
2017
Wu Assassins
2019
The Jackal
1997
The Kennedys
2011
The Age of Adaline
2015
Largo Winch
2001
Somewhere Between
2017
The Day the Earth Stood Still
2008
Played
2013
50/50
2011
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
2011
Paycheck
2003
The Score
2001
Nine Lives
2016
Iron Road
2009
The Invisible
2007
A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!
2011
Look Who's Talking Now!
1993
Grey Owl
1999
Stay Tuned
1992
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
2002
Omen IV: The Awakening
1991
Air Buddies
2006
Murdaugh Murders: The Movie
2023
The Perfect Score
2004
Boot Camp
2008
In My Dreams
2015
P.T. Barnum
1999
Midnight in Saint Petersburg
1996
Coffee & Kareem
2020
The Peacekeeper
1997
Personal Effects
2009
The Baker's Son
2021
Natural Enemy
1996
End of the World
2013
Grace
2009
Sisters
2006
Goodnight for Justice: Queen of Hearts
2013
Love & Human Remains
1994
Messages Deleted
2010
All of My Heart: Inn Love
2017
Iron Road
2009
The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother's Hunt for Justice
2021
No Surrender
2011
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
2008
Wilder
2000
All Things Valentine
2016
He Loves Me
2011
Lonesome Dove Church
2014
Ruby
2021
Pretty Poison
1996
If I Only Had Christmas
2020
The Rocket
2005
Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane
2024
Run for Your Life
2014
Christmas on Holly Lane
2018
Hidden Agenda
2001
Final Days of Planet Earth
2006
How to Murder Your Husband: The Nancy Brophy Story
2023
Good Morning, Killer
2011
Destination: Infestation
2007
Santa Hunters
2014
Wedding March 3: Here Comes the Bride
2018
Sleepwalking in Suburbia
2017
A Christmas Proposal
2021
Mingle All the Way
2018
The Windsor Protocol
1998
P.T. Barnum
1999
Who Killed JonBenét?
2016
Les Légendes du Grand Nord
1995
Eighteen
2005
Little Men
1998
Promise Her Anything
1999
A Little Daytime Drama
2021
Code Name: Jaguar
1999
The Gambler, The Girl and The Gunslinger
2009
Legacy of Fear
2006
The Wrong Woman
1995
The Good Times Are Killing Me
2009
Five More Minutes
2021
Love in Winterland
2020
Dancing on the Moon
1997
Musketeers Forever
1998
Dangerous Intuition
2013
Elopement
2010
Hitched for the Holidays
2012
Christmas She Wrote
2020
Dead End
1998
A Beachcombers Christmas
2004
The Wedding March
2016
Running Home
1999
Task Force: Caviar
2000
Empire of Ash III
1990
Black List
1995
Notes from the Heart Healer
2012
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
2013
Requiem for Murder
1999
The Kate Logan Affair
2010
Final Vision
2017
Four Extraordinary Women
2006
Boundaries
2016
Sealed With a Kiss: Wedding March 6
2021
Tomcat: Dangerous Desires
1993
Hawk's Vengeance
1996
Proof of Lies
2006
My Daughter, My Angel
2007
Eye of the Wolf
1994
Manners of Dying
2004
The Portrait
1992
Octobre
1994
Summit Circle
2007
Demain
2008
The Last Breath
1999
Windigo
1994
The American Trap
2008
Highway of Heartache
1996
La belle empoisonneuse
2007