Pierre Lescure
Known for Acting · 34 credits
- Born
- 1945-07-02 (age 80)
- Place of birth
- Paris, France
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.
Known For
TV Shows (14)
Vivement dimanche
1998
as Self
C à vous
2009
as Self - Panelist
Nulle part ailleurs
1987
as Self
Beau geste
2023
as Self - Host
Stars 90
1990
as Self
Quelle époque !
2022
as Self - Guest
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022
as Self
On n'est pas couché
2006
as Self - Guest
Jibé et Lucien en coulisses
2024
as Self
Télévision (histoires secrètes)
1996
as Self (archive footage)
Cannes Festival
2022
as Self - Guest
No Goal
1987
as Lui-même
La Guerre des télés
2007
as Self
Lescure : Tôt ou tard
2010
as Self - Host
Movies (20)
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
1994
as Pierre Lescure
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002
as Narrator (voice)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022
as Self (archive footage)
A Day at the Museum
2008
as Christian
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
2005
as le commissaire Richard
Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
2018
as Self
Les Guignols, les 10 premières années
1999
as Self
Gainsbourg and His Girls
2010
as Narrator (voice)
Ladies' Choice
1982
as Bruno Estier
Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien
2026
Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)
2023
as Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
La télé des Nuls
2019
as Self
Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
2022
as Self
My Coluche
2026
as Self
La télé de Valérie Lemercier
2017
as Self
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
2026
as Self - Chief Executive Officer of Canal+ (1984-2022)
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
2016
as Self
Pierre & Lescure
2020
Jean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot
2025
as Self
La folie des années 90
2010
as Self
About Pierre Lescure
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… With 34 credits spanning from 1982 to 2026, Pierre Lescure has appeared in 20 films and 14 TV shows.
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Most Popular Pierre Lescure Movies
- Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy (1994) — as Pierre Lescure
- A Day in the Life of French Cinema (2002) — as Narrator (voice)
- La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président (2022) — as Self (archive footage)
- A Day at the Museum (2008) — as Christian
- By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2005) — as le commissaire Richard
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