Pierre Lescure
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 2, 1945 (age 81)
- Birthplace
- 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
Filmography
Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien
Movie
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
Movie · as Self - Chief Executive Officer of Canal+ (1984-2022)
My Coluche
Movie · as Self
The Giaccomo
Movie · as Self
Jean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot
Movie · as Self
Jibé et Lucien en coulisses
TV · as Self · 8 eps
Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)
Movie · as Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
Beau geste
TV · as Self - Host · 113 eps
Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
Movie · as Self
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Quelle époque !
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Cannes Festival
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Pierre & Lescure
Movie
La télé des Nuls
Movie · as Self
Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
Movie · as Self
La télé de Valérie Lemercier
Movie · as Self
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
Movie · as Self
La folie des années 90
Movie · as Self
Gainsbourg and His Girls
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Lescure : Tôt ou tard
TV · as Self - Host · 1 ep
C à vous
TV · as Self - Panelist · 291 eps
A Day at the Museum
Movie · as Christian
La Guerre des télés
TV · as Self · 2 eps
On n'est pas couché
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Movie · as le commissaire Richard
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Movie · as Narrator (voice)
Les Guignols, les 10 premières années
Movie · as Self
Vivement dimanche
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Télévision (histoires secrètes)
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 2 eps
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
Movie · as Pierre Lescure
Stars 90
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Nulle part ailleurs
TV · as Self · 1 ep
No Goal
TV · as Lui-même · 1 ep
Ladies' Choice
Movie · as Bruno Estier