Serge Houde

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Serge Houde

Serge Houde (* 1953 in Québec ) is a Canadian actor .

Life

Serge Houde was born in Quebec City and grew up on a military base in Picton , Ontario . He speaks in French from birth and learned English at school. When he was ten years old, his father died and the rest of the family moved back to Houde's hometown. After high school , at the age of nineteen, he worked as a wildlife photojournalist . His pictures and articles appeared among others. a. in National Geographic Magazine . He also tried his hand at various other professions, including building the Trans-Canada Highway . At 24 he attended Guelph University. He then worked in the advertising industry in Montreal and moved to Vancouver , where he won two Bessie awards .

At the age of 35, Houde decided to become an actor. Since then he has made numerous films in English and French in various countries. In the spy film The Palmer Files: Gentlemen of the Apocalypse (1996), a film adaptation of Len Deighton with Michael Caine and Jason Connery in the leading roles, Houde played an art dealer who wants to do business with criminals. In the action film Hawk's Revenge (1997), in which the main character is looking for his brother's murderer, he appeared briefly in two scenes as the chief of the killed policeman. In the children's film Maddy Dances on the Moon (1997), he played the father of a girl who gives up fantasy conversations with her stuffed bunny as she gets older. Houde portrayed other supporting roles in Love and Other Cruelties (1993) by director Denys Arcand , in the film drama October (1994), in The Jackal (1997) with Richard Gere , in False Pretense (1998) with Eric Roberts , in The Score (2001) with Robert De Niro , in the comedy Pluto Nash (2002) with Eddie Murphy and in Paycheck - Die Abrechnung (2003) with Ben Affleck . In the television series Largo Winch (2001) he was seen in 39 episodes as John Sullivan . He had a minor role in Steven Spielberg's mini-series Taken (2002). Probably his greatest role was in the film drama Manners of Dying (2004) with Roy Dupuis , in which he is the prison director responsible for the correct execution of the executions.

Serge Houde is married to Gwen Gnazdowsky.

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SURNAME Houde, Serge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Quebec , Canada