Germain Houde
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Germain Houde (born December 14, 1952) is a Genie Award-winning Canadian actor from Petit-Saguenay, Quebec. He has usually played tough-guy parts; his screen characters have ranged from cruel criminals to corrupt policemen. A graduate of the Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique de Québec, Houde spent his early years in theatre including time with an experimental troupe in England. His first cinematic role was in Anne Claire Poirier’s acclaimed A Scream from Silence (Mourir à tue-tête), where he played a vicious rapist. He has won two Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for his roles in Good Riddance (Les bons débarras) and Night Zoo (Un Zoo la nuit). His other roles have included the television series Omerta, Les Filles de Caleb, Les Invincibles and Vertige, and the films Prettykill, Love Me (Love-moi), Terminal City Ricochet, Léolo, Jerome's Secret, Fear of Water (La Peur de l'eau) and 2 Frogs in the West.
Known for
Credits
Les filles de Caleb: l'histoire d'une passion (2025)
as Self
Jerome's Secret (1994)
as Jean Nicholas
La nuit avec Hortense (1988)
Actor
Léolo (1992)
as Teacher
Night Zoo (1987)
as Charlie
Pretty Kill (1987)
as Jacques Mercier
The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy (1988)
as Major Alain Mafart / Alain Turenge
2 Frogs in the West (2010)
as Jacques Deschamps
Saint Martyrs of the Damned (2005)
as White
Love-moi (1991)
as Charles
A Scream from Silence (1979)
as Le violeur
The Mysterious Miss C. (2002)
as Ministre de l'éducation
On My Mother's Side (2016)
as Michel
The Revenge of the Woman in Black (1997)
as Augustin Marleau
Matusalem II: le dernier des Beauchesne (1997)
as Père Lachaise
L’est de la brúixola (2005)
as Tom
Four Stiffs and a Trombone (1991)
as Augustin Marleau
Fear of Water (2012)
as Roméo Richard
The Outlander (2005)
as David Desmarais
The Happiness of Others (2011)
as Raymond
The Broken Line (2008)
as Roman
La Bolduc (2018)
as Conrad Gauthier
Marie-Soleil et Jean-Claude: au-delà des étoiles (2022)
as Self
Craque la vie! (1994)
as Richard Beaudoin
Shellgame (1985)
as Andre Crystal
Terminal City Ricochet (1990)
as Ace
Lonely Child: The Imaginary World of Claude Vivier (1989)
as Claude Vivier - Age 34
Good Riddance (1980)
as Guy
Lucien Brouillard (1983)
as Detective
Heads or Tails (2018)
Actor