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Pierre Lescure

Pierre Lescure

Actor · Born 1945-07-02 · Paris, France

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Biography

Pierre Lescure (born July 2, 1945), is a French journalist and television executive. He is known for having founded the French TV music show Les Enfants du rock broadcast on public television from 1981 to 1988 and for having led the French Canal+ channel from its creation in 1984 to 2002. Since 2015 he has been the president of the Cannes Film Festival. He is the son of François Lescure, French Resistance member and journalist for the French communist daily newspaper L'Humanité, and the grandson of Pierre de Lescure, founder of the publishing house Les Éditions de Minuit. He grew up in Choisy-le-Roi. He studied journalism at the Centre de formation des journalistes de Paris. He started his career at the radio station RTL, where he was reporter and news anchor from 1965 to 1968, and moved to RMC from 1968 to 1972. He started working in television as a news anchor of the evening news program of the French public network Antenne 2. In 1981, he created the TV music show Les Enfants du rock. He supported the candidacy of François Hollande during the 2012 French presidential election, and has led a mission about Culture and Media in his government. He became president of the Cannes …

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy (1994) — Pierre Lescure
  2. By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2005) — le commissaire Richard
  3. Ladies' Choice (1982) — Bruno Estier
  4. A Day at the Museum (2008) — Christian
  5. Nulle part ailleurs (1987) — Self
  6. Vivement dimanche (1998) — Self
  7. No Goal (1987) — Lui-même
  8. Omar Sy, c'est ta chance (2018) — Self
  9. La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président (2022) — Self (archive footage)
  10. On n'est pas couché (2006) — Self - Guest
  11. Gainsbourg and His Girls (2010) — Narrator (voice)
  12. C à vous (2009) — Self - Panelist
  13. Il était une fois Champs-Élysées (2022) — Self
  14. Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès (2022) — Self
  15. Les Guignols, les 10 premières années (1999) — Self
  16. Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien (2026)
  17. Quelle époque ! (2022) — Self - Guest
  18. Stars 90 (1990) — Self
  19. Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s) (2023) — Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
  20. Pierre & Lescure (2020)
  21. A Day in the Life of French Cinema (2002) — Narrator (voice)
  22. La télé des Nuls (2019) — Self
  23. Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français (2026) — Self - Chief Executive Officer of Canal+ (1984-2022)
  24. My Coluche (2026) — Self
  25. Télévision (histoires secrètes) (1996) — Self (archive footage)
  26. La Guerre des télés (2007) — Self
  27. Beau geste (2023) — Self - Host
  28. Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires (2016) — Self
  29. La télé de Valérie Lemercier (2017) — Self
  30. La folie des années 90 (2010) — Self
  31. Jean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot (2025) — Self
  32. Lescure : Tôt ou tard (2010) — Self - Host
  33. Cannes Festival (2022) — Self - Guest
  34. Jibé et Lucien en coulisses (2024) — Self

Directed

  1. Bashung, Alain - La tournée des grands espaces (2003) — Director