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
Vivement dimanche
C à vous
Nulle part ailleurs
Beau geste
Stars 90
On n'est pas couché
Quelle époque !
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
All Movies (20)
- Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien2026
- My Coluche2026 · as Self
- Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français2026 · as Self - Chief Executive Officer of Canal+ (1984-2022)
- Jean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot2025 · as Self
- Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)2023 · as Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
- Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès2022 · as Self
- La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président2022 · as Self (archive footage)
- Pierre & Lescure2020
- La télé des Nuls2019 · as Self
- Omar Sy, c'est ta chance2018 · as Self
- La télé de Valérie Lemercier2017 · as Self
- Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires2016 · as Self
- La folie des années 902010 · as Self
- Gainsbourg and His Girls2010 · as Narrator (voice)
- A Day at the Museum2008 · as Christian
- By the Pricking of My Thumbs2005 · as le commissaire Richard
- A Day in the Life of French Cinema2002 · as Narrator (voice)
- Les Guignols, les 10 premières années1999 · as Self
- Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy1994 · as Pierre Lescure
- Ladies' Choice1982 · as Bruno Estier
All TV Shows (14)
- Jibé et Lucien en coulisses2024 · as Self
- Beau geste2023 · as Self - Host
- Il était une fois Champs-Élysées2022 · as Self
- Quelle époque !2022 · as Self - Guest
- Cannes Festival2022 · as Self - Guest
- Lescure : Tôt ou tard2010 · as Self - Host
- C à vous2009 · as Self - Panelist
- La Guerre des télés2007 · as Self
- On n'est pas couché2006 · as Self - Guest
- Vivement dimanche1998 · as Self
- Télévision (histoires secrètes)1996 · as Self (archive footage)
- Stars 901990 · as Self
- Nulle part ailleurs1987 · as Self
- No Goal1987 · as Lui-même