- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- July 2, 1945
- Place of Birth
- Paris, France
Pierre Lescure
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 pr…
Filmography
movieCarolco, un rêve hollywoodien
2026
movieMy Coluche
2026 · Self
movieException culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
2026 · Self - Chief Executive Officer of Canal+ (1984-2022)
movieJean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot
2025 · Self
tvJibé et Lucien en coulisses
2024 · Self
movieÉtienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)
2023 · Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
tvBeau geste
2023 · Self - Host, Creator
tvIl était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022 · Self
tvQuelle époque !
2022 · Self - Guest
movieJean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
2022 · Self
tvCannes Festival
2022 · Self - Guest
movieLa TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022 · Self (archive footage)
moviePierre & Lescure
2020
tvLe temps d'une histoire
2020 · Presenter
movieLa télé des Nuls
2019 · Self
movieOmar Sy, c'est ta chance
2018 · Self
movieLa télé de Valérie Lemercier
2017 · Self
movieEddy Mitchell, itinéraires
2016 · Self
tvLescure : Tôt ou tard
2010 · Self - Host
movieLa folie des années 90
2010 · Self
movieGainsbourg and His Girls
2010 · Narrator (voice)
tvC à vous
2009 · Self - Panelist
movieA Day at the Museum
2008 · Christian
tvLa Guerre des télés
2007 · Self
tvOn n'est pas couché
2006 · Self - Guest
movieBy the Pricking of My Thumbs
2005 · le commissaire Richard
movieBashung, Alain - La tournée des grands espaces
2003 · Director
movieA Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002 · Narrator (voice)
movieHumanité
1999 · Co-Producer
movieLes Guignols, les 10 premières années
1999 · Self
tvVivement dimanche
1998 · Self
movieDidier
1997 · Co-Producer
tvTélévision (histoires secrètes)
1996 · Self (archive footage)
movieThe Monster
1994 · Producer
movieFear City: A Family-Style Comedy
1994 · Pierre Lescure
movieFanfan
1993 · Producer
movieVan Gogh
1991 · Producer
tvStars 90
1990 · Self
tvNulle part ailleurs
1987 · Self
tvNo Goal
1987 · Lui-même
tvSex Machine
1983 · Creator
movieLadies' Choice
1982 · Bruno Estier
tvLes Enfants Du Rock
1982 · Creator