Pierre Lescure
Acting
1945-07-02 · Paris, France
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.
Filmography
TheatersCarolco, un rêve hollywoodien
2026 · Movie
My Coluche
2026 · Movie
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
2026 · Movie
Jean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot
2025 · Movie
Jibé et Lucien en coulisses
2024 · Series
Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)
2023 · Movie
Beau geste
2023 · Series
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022 · Series
Quelle époque !
2022 · Series
Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
2022 · Movie
Cannes Festival
2022 · Series
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022 · Movie
Pierre & Lescure
2020 · Movie
Le temps d'une histoire
2020 · Series
La télé des Nuls
2019 · Movie
Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
2018 · Movie
La télé de Valérie Lemercier
2017 · Movie
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
2016 · Movie
Lescure : Tôt ou tard
2010 · Series
La folie des années 90
2010 · Movie
Gainsbourg and His Girls
2010 · Movie
C à vous
2009 · Series
A Day at the Museum
2008 · Movie
La Guerre des télés
2007 · Series
On n'est pas couché
2006 · Series
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
2005 · Movie
Bashung, Alain - La tournée des grands espaces
2003 · Movie
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002 · Movie
Humanité
1999 · Movie
Les Guignols, les 10 premières années
1999 · Movie
Vivement dimanche
1998 · Series
Didier
1997 · Movie
Télévision (histoires secrètes)
1996 · Series
The Monster
1994 · Movie
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
1994 · Movie
Fanfan
1993 · Movie
Van Gogh
1991 · Movie
Stars 90
1990 · Series
Nulle part ailleurs
1987 · Series
No Goal
1987 · Series
Sex Machine
1983 · Series
Ladies' Choice
1982 · Movie
Les Enfants Du Rock
1982 · Series