Acting
Serge Houde
EN, FR cinema · 109 credits
Born
16 February 1953 (age 73)
Birthplace
Québec, Canada
Also known as Steve Makaj
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.
Known for
Filmography
How to Murder Your Husband: The Nancy Brophy Story
as Probate Judge
A Christmas Proposal
as Bill Pendergast
Five More Minutes
as Edward
V.C. Andrews' Ruby
as Jack Landry
The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother's Hunt for Justice
as Gus Coletti: Caring Neighbour
The Baker's Son
as Jean Pierre
A Little Daytime Drama
as Walter Fairchild, as Walter Fairchild/Ted Gerard)
Coffee & Kareem
as Jerome
Love in Winterland
as Walter Sprodling
Christmas She Wrote
as Brian
Mingle All the Way
as Reginald Hoffman
Final Vision
as Judge Dupree
All of My Heart: Inn Love
as Mitchell
Sleepwalking in Suburbia
as Dr. Thorston
Who Killed JonBenét?
as Attorney Byron Burroughs
Boundaries
as Dustin Thorpe
Nine Lives
as Stein
The Wedding March
as Johnny
The Age of Adaline
as Good Samaritan
In My Dreams
as Older Man
Santa Hunters
as Principal Welch
Lonesome Dove Church
as Charles Stone
Run for Your Life
as Tyler Stone
Dangerous Intuition
as Detective Debrinsky
End of the World
as General Ramis
Dragons: Real Myths and Unreal Creatures
as Dr. Vulnet Grazinar
Notes from the Heart Healer
as Violet's Boss
50/50
as Richard Lerner
No Surrender
as Detective Hank Wilson
Good Morning, Killer
as Vince
He Loves Me
as Butcher
The Kate Logan Affair
as Sergent McBean
Messages Deleted
as Det. Breedlove
Elopement
as Dr. Kazinski
Grace
as Henry Matheson
Personal Effects
as Judge Wettick
Iron Road
as George Grant
The Good Times Are Killing Me
as Cameron Derby
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
as Stephen Windom
Demain
as Richard
Boot Camp
as Karl
The Day the Earth Stood Still
as Scientist #1
The American Trap
as DEA Agent Thompson
The Invisible
as Martin Egan
Destination: Infestation
as Captain Dan McReady
Summit Circle
as Jean-Pierre Deniger
My Daughter, My Angel
as Robert Brault
La belle empoisonneuse
as M. Angelopoulos
Legacy of Fear
as Police Chief Ray Blum
Proof of Lies
as Dr. Jack Gannon
Final Days of Planet Earth
as Korshaft
Sisters
as Detective Kalen
Air Buddies
as Miles Livingstone
The Rocket
as Connie Smythe
Eighteen
as Earl
A Beachcombers Christmas
as Randolph Kendall
The Perfect Score
as Kurt Dooling
Manners of Dying
as Harry Parlington
Paycheck
as William Dekker
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
as FBI Agent
The Score
as Laurent
Hidden Agenda
as Paul Elkert
Wilder
as Walker Grimes
Task Force: Caviar
as Drolet
Promise Her Anything
as Frank Seymour
The Last Breath
as Sheriff Mitchum
Requiem for Murder
as P.M. Courtland
Grey Owl
as Second Hunter
Code Name: Jaguar
as CIA Director Price
P.T. Barnum
as John Genin
Musketeers Forever
as Roland Locksley
Little Men
as John Brooke
Dead End
Actor
The Jackal
as Beaufres
Dancing on the Moon
as Joseph Morrison
The Peacekeeper
as Secretary of Defense
Natural Enemy
as Sherwood
Midnight in Saint Petersburg
as Dr. Vestry
Hawk's Vengeance
as Durkee
Pretty Poison
as Mueller
Highway of Heartache
as Clive Turnpike
Black List
as Ministre Paul Rhéaume
Love & Human Remains
as The Cowboy
Octobre
as Pierre Laporte
Eye of the Wolf
as Sergent
Windigo
as Freddy Hook
Look Who's Talking Now!
as Maitre D'
Tomcat: Dangerous Desires
as Dr. Pace
The Portrait
1992
The Portrait
as John Schroeder
Stay Tuned
as Father in Yogi Beer Commercial
Omen IV: The Awakening
as Morris Creighton
Empire of Ash III
as 2nd Shepherd