He is best known for his role as Oscar "Oscy" Seltzer in Summer of '42 and its sequel, Class of '44, as Dave "Killer" Carlson in Slap Shot, and as Wally Logan, the husband of Marcia Brady, in various Brady Bunch spinoffs throughout the 1980s and '90s.

Houser was born in Los Angeles,[citation needed] and attended North Hollywood High School.

Some of his most notable appearances are Summer of '42, Slap Shot with Paul Newman,[citation needed] and in the Brady Bunch spin-offs as Marcia's husband, Wally Logan.

[2] On television, Houser portrayed Muff on We'll Get By,[3] orderly Haskell on The New Temperatures Rising Show[2]: 758  Steve Frazier, Maude Findlay's nephew, on season 4 episode 21 of Maude (TV series), and Jeremy Fenton on It Takes Two[2]: 514 .

He also provided the voices of Grizzle on Zazoo U,[2]: 1212  Sully on Danger Rangers[2]: 232 , and Bartholomew on The Gary Coleman Show.