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Serge Houde
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 playin…
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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.
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2024
Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane
Movie Walter
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2024
Tracker
TV show Kurtis Lauper
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2023
Murdaugh Murders: The Movie
TV show Jim Griffin
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2023
How to Murder Your Husband: The Nancy Brophy Story
Movie Probate Judge
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2022
So Help Me Todd
TV show Edmund Grant
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2022
Surface
TV show Vince Hawkins
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2021
A Christmas Proposal
Movie Bill Pendergast
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2021
Five More Minutes
Movie Edward
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2021
A Little Daytime Drama
Movie Walter Fairchild
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2021
Sealed With a Kiss: Wedding March 6
Movie Jonny
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2021
The Baker's Son
Movie Jean Pierre
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2021
V.C. Andrews' Ruby
Movie Jack Landry
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2021
The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother's Hunt for Justice
Movie Gus Coletti: Caring Neighbour
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2020
Christmas She Wrote
Movie Brian
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2020
If I Only Had Christmas
Movie Henry
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2020
Coffee & Kareem
Movie Jerome
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2020
Love in Winterland
Movie Walter Sprodling
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2019
Wu Assassins
TV show The Duke
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2018
Mingle All the Way
Movie Reginald Hoffman
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2018
Christmas on Holly Lane
Movie Oscar
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2018
A Million Little Things
TV show Captain
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2018
Wedding March 3: Here Comes the Bride
Movie Johnny
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2017
Final Vision
Movie Judge Dupree
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2017
All of My Heart: Inn Love
Movie Mitchell
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2017
Somewhere Between
TV show Richard Ruskin
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2017
Sleepwalking in Suburbia
Movie Dr. Thorston
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2017
Trial & Error
TV show Milton Buckley
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2017
A Series of Unfortunate Events
TV show Milt
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2016
Boundaries
Movie Dustin Thorpe
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2016
Who Killed JonBenét?
Movie Attorney Byron Burroughs
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2016
Chesapeake Shores
TV show Del Granger
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2016
Nine Lives
Movie Stein
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2016
The Wedding March
Movie Johnny
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2016
All Things Valentine
Movie Roy
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2015
In My Dreams
Movie Older Man
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2015
The Age of Adaline
Movie Good Samaritan
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2015
iZombie
TV show High Priced Lawyer
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2014
Santa Hunters
Movie Principal Welch
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2014
Run for Your Life
Movie Tyler Stone
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2014
Lonesome Dove Church
Movie Charles Stone
