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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1953-02-16
Place of birth
Québec, Canada
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Cast
Natural Enemy
1996
4.50
Who Killed JonBenét?
2016
6.12
Musketeers Forever
1998
6.00
The Jackal
1997
6.38
Grace
2009
5.45
Midnight in Saint Petersburg
1996
4.82
A Christmas Proposal
2021
6.50
The Invisible
2007
6.34
Five More Minutes
2021
7.60
50/50
2011
7.17
Personal Effects
2009
6.03
Wilder
2000
4.12
Love & Human Remains
1994
5.83
Octobre
1994
7.30
Four Extraordinary Women
2006
6.00
Messages Deleted
2010
5.40
Destination: Infestation
2007
3.96
Les Légendes du Grand Nord
1995
0.00
Eye of the Wolf
1994
10.00
Hawk's Vengeance
1996
4.30
Iron Road
2009
6.30
Legacy of Fear
2006
4.70
Proof of Lies
2006
4.60
Demain
2008
5.00
A Beachcombers Christmas
2004
0.00
The Perfect Score
2004
5.77
Summit Circle
2007
6.60
The Good Times Are Killing Me
2009
4.00
Manners of Dying
2004
6.50
No Surrender
2011
4.96
Final Days of Planet Earth
2006
4.66
Promise Her Anything
1999
7.50
The Last Breath
1999
5.00
The Score
2001
6.70
Boot Camp
2008
5.95
The Age of Adaline
2015
7.50
Look Who's Talking Now!
1993
5.30
Requiem for Murder
1999
6.70
In My Dreams
2015
6.42
Santa Hunters
2014
6.60
Black List
1995
5.00
Dangerous Intuition
2013
5.50
Sisters
2006
3.82
Elopement
2010
4.80
Good Morning, Killer
2011
5.20
Boundaries
2016
5.80
Nine Lives
2016
5.80
Paycheck
2003
6.21
Tomcat: Dangerous Desires
1993
4.00
Little Men
1998
4.50
Lonesome Dove Church
2014
4.70
Run for Your Life
2014
6.11
Hitched for the Holidays
2012
6.39
End of the World
2013
4.64
Dancing on the Moon
1997
5.75
The Portrait
1992
0.00
Omen IV: The Awakening
1991
4.96
Running Home
1999
5.33
Air Buddies
2006
5.90
He Loves Me
2011
4.14
Windigo
1994
5.00
Hidden Agenda
2001
4.52
Pretty Poison
1996
2.50
Grey Owl
1999
5.56
Final Vision
2017
6.10
Highway of Heartache
1996
0.00
Mingle All the Way
2018
7.08
Christmas on Holly Lane
2018
6.39
The Day the Earth Stood Still
2008
5.64
The American Trap
2008
4.50
All of My Heart: Inn Love
2017
7.00
The Wedding March
2016
5.88
Coffee & Kareem
2020
5.46
Love in Winterland
2020
6.72
Code Name: Jaguar
1999
3.00
Task Force: Caviar
2000
2.00
My Daughter, My Angel
2007
5.90
The Peacekeeper
1997
4.60
The Rocket
2005
6.70
Christmas She Wrote
2020
6.10
If I Only Had Christmas
2020
6.50
La belle empoisonneuse
2007
5.00
Ruby
2021
6.30
The Kate Logan Affair
2010
5.00
Sleepwalking in Suburbia
2017
5.10
All Things Valentine
2016
5.89
The Baker's Son
2021
6.45
A Little Daytime Drama
2021
6.60
A Little Daytime Drama
2021
6.60
Stay Tuned
1992
6.15
Notes from the Heart Healer
2012
5.80
Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane
2024
6.40
Eighteen
2005
4.50
P.T. Barnum
1999
7.00
The Windsor Protocol
1998
3.70
The Wrong Woman
1995
6.00
Dead End
1998
4.90