Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 02, 1945
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Credits
43 titles
Pierre Lescure
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 Film Festival in 2014.
Known For
Filmography
Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien
My Coluche
Self
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
Self - Chief Executive Officer of Canal+ (1984-2022)
Jean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot
Self
Jibé et Lucien en coulisses
Self
Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)
Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
Beau geste
Self - Host
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Self
Quelle époque !
Self - Guest
Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
Self
Cannes Festival
Self - Guest
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage)
Pierre & Lescure
Le temps d'une histoire
Presenter
La télé des Nuls
Self
Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
Self
La télé de Valérie Lemercier
Self
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
Self
Lescure : Tôt ou tard
Self - Host
La folie des années 90
Self
Gainsbourg and His Girls
Narrator (voice)
C à vous
Self - Panelist
A Day at the Museum
Christian
La Guerre des télés
Self
On n'est pas couché
Self - Guest
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
le commissaire Richard
Bashung, Alain - La tournée des grands espaces
Director
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Narrator (voice)
Humanité
Co-Producer
Les Guignols, les 10 premières années
Self
Vivement dimanche
Self
Didier
Co-Producer
Télévision (histoires secrètes)
Self (archive footage)
The Monster
Producer
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
Pierre Lescure
Fanfan
Producer
Van Gogh
Producer
Stars 90
Self
Nulle part ailleurs
Self
No Goal
Lui-même
Sex Machine
Creator
Ladies' Choice
Bruno Estier
Les Enfants Du Rock
Creator