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.
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.
External links
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/nm0503928
Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3385949
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Filmography (Movies)
Jean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot
Character:Self
Release Date:14/12/2025
Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)
Character:Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
Release Date:17/05/2023
Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
Character:Self
Release Date:24/08/2022
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:07/01/2022
Pierre & Lescure
Character:
Release Date:27/12/2020
La télé des Nuls
Character:Self
Release Date:02/11/2019
Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
Character:Self
Release Date:21/11/2018
La télé de Valérie Lemercier
Character:Self
Release Date:23/11/2017
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
Character:Self
Release Date:14/03/2016
La folie des années 90
Character:Self
Release Date:01/03/2010
Gainsbourg and His Girls
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:18/01/2010
A Day at the Museum
Character:Christian
Release Date:19/11/2008
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Character:le commissaire Richard
Release Date:13/04/2005
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Character:Narrator (voice)
Release Date:20/05/2002
Les Guignols, les 10 premières années
Character:Self
Release Date:19/02/1999
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
Character:Pierre Lescure
Release Date:09/03/1994
Ladies' Choice
Character:Bruno Estier
Release Date:03/11/1982
Television Appearances
Jibé et Lucien en coulisses
Character:Self
Beau geste
Character:Self - Host
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Character:Self
Quelle époque !
Character:Self - Guest
Cannes Festival
Character:Self - Guest
Lescure : Tôt ou tard
Character:Self - Host
C à vous
Character:Self - Panelist
La Guerre des télés
Character:Self
On n'est pas couché
Character:Self - Guest
Vivement dimanche
Character:Self
Télévision (histoires secrètes)
Character:Self (archive footage)
Stars 90
Character:Self
Nulle part ailleurs
Character:Self
No Goal
Character:Lui-même
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