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.
108 movies · 33 shows
Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane
2024·6.4
How to Murder Your Husband: The Nancy Brophy Story
2023·6.3
A Christmas Proposal
2021·6.6
Five More Minutes
2021·7.3
A Little Daytime Drama
2021·6.5
Sealed With a Kiss: Wedding March 6
2021·6.3
The Baker's Son
2021·6.3
Ruby
2021·6.3
The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother's Hunt for Justice
2021·5.8
Christmas She Wrote
2020·6.1
If I Only Had Christmas
2020·6.6
Coffee & Kareem
2020·5.4
Love in Winterland
2020·6.6
Mingle All the Way
2018·7.1
Christmas on Holly Lane
2018·6.4
Wedding March 3: Here Comes the Bride
2018·6.2
Final Vision
2017·6.1
All of My Heart: Inn Love
2017·6.9
Sleepwalking in Suburbia
2017·5.2
Boundaries
2016·5.8
Who Killed JonBenét?
2016·6.3
Nine Lives
2016·5.8
The Wedding March
2016·6.1
All Things Valentine
2016·5.9
In My Dreams
2015·6.4
The Age of Adaline
2015·7.5
Santa Hunters
2014·6.7
Run for Your Life
2014·6.1
Lonesome Dove Church
2014·4.7
Dangerous Intuition
2013·6.8
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
2013·5.5
End of the World
2013·4.7
Goodnight for Justice: Queen of Hearts
2013·6.8
Hitched for the Holidays
2012·6.3
Notes from the Heart Healer
2012·6.3
Good Morning, Killer
2011·4.9
50/50
2011·7.2
A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner!
2011·4.8
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
2011·6.7
No Surrender
2011·4.7
He Loves Me
2011·4.1
The Kate Logan Affair
2010·5.0
Elopement
2010·4.8
Messages Deleted
2010·5.3
The Good Times Are Killing Me
2009·3.7
Grace
2009·5.4
The Gambler, The Girl and The Gunslinger
2009·4.5
Iron Road
2009·6.3
Personal Effects
2009·6.0
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
2008·6.4
The Day the Earth Stood Still
2008·5.7
Demain
2008·4.3
The American Trap
2008·4.7
Boot Camp
2008·5.9
La belle empoisonneuse
2007·5.0
Summit Circle
2007·6.6
Destination: Infestation
2007·4.0
The Invisible
2007·6.4
My Daughter, My Angel
2007·5.9
Air Buddies
2006·5.9
Legacy of Fear
2006·4.6
Sisters
2006·3.9
Four Extraordinary Women
2006·6.0
Proof of Lies
2006·4.9
Final Days of Planet Earth
2006·4.8
The Rocket
2005·6.9
Eighteen
2005·4.5
A Beachcombers Christmas
2004·7.0
Manners of Dying
2004·7.1
The Perfect Score
2004·5.8
Paycheck
2003·6.2
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
2002·4.4
The Score
2001·6.7
Hidden Agenda
2001·4.3
Wilder
2000·4.4
Task Force: Caviar
2000·5.0
Code Name: Jaguar
1999·4.3
Grey Owl
1999·5.6
P.T. Barnum
1999·7.0
Promise Her Anything
1999·7.3
Requiem for Murder
1999·8.0
The Last Breath
1999·5.6
Running Home
1999·6.0
Musketeers Forever
1998·5.5
The Windsor Protocol
1998·4.8
Dead End
1998·5.1
Little Men
1998·5.5
The Jackal
1997·6.4
The Peacekeeper
1997·4.8
Dancing on the Moon
1997·6.2
Natural Enemy
1996·4.8
Midnight in Saint Petersburg
1996·5.2
Pretty Poison
1996·4.0
Hawk's Vengeance
1996·6.1
Highway of Heartache
1996·10.0
Black List
1995·4.9
The Wrong Woman
1995·8.0
Les Légendes du Grand Nord
1995·7.0
Octobre
1994·7.3
Windigo
1994·6.3
Love & Human Remains
1994·5.8
Eye of the Wolf
1994·8.7
Look Who's Talking Now!
1993·5.4
Tomcat: Dangerous Desires
1993·4.4
The Portrait
1992·10.0
Stay Tuned
1992·6.2
Omen IV: The Awakening
1991·5.0
Empire of Ash III
1990·2.7