Pierre Lescure
Acting
Born: 1945-07-02 in 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. He became president of the Cannes Film Festival in 2014.
Known For
Vivement dimanche
Self
C à vous
Self - Panelist
Nulle part ailleurs
Self
On n'est pas couché
Self - Guest
Beau geste
Self - Host
Quelle époque !
Self - Guest
Stars 90
Self
No Goal
Lui-même
Jibé et Lucien en coulisses
Self
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Self
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
Self
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
Pierre Lescure
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage)
Cannes Festival
Self - Guest
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
le commissaire Richard
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
Self - Chief Executive Officer of Canal+ (1984-2022)
Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien
My Coluche
Self
La Guerre des télés
Self
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Narrator (voice)
Télévision (histoires secrètes)
Self (archive footage)
Gainsbourg and His Girls
Narrator (voice)
Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
Self
Jean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot
Self
A Day at the Museum
Christian
Lescure : Tôt ou tard
Self - Host
Pierre & Lescure
Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
Self
La télé des Nuls
Self
Ladies' Choice
Bruno Estier
Les Guignols, les 10 premières années
Self
Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)
Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
La télé de Valérie Lemercier
Self
La folie des années 90
Self