Acting · geboren 1945-07-02 · 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 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.

Bekannt aus

• La cité de la peur (1994) – Pierre Lescure
• Mein Hund, der Fußballstar (1997) – Co-Producer
• Das Monster (1994) – Producer
• Van Gogh (1991) – Producer
• L'humanité (1999) – Co-Producer
• Fanfan (1993) – Producer
• Mon petit doigt m'a dit... (2005) – le commissaire Richard
• Damenwahl – Männerjagd (1982) – Bruno Estier
• Musée haut, musée bas (2008) – Christian
• Vivement dimanche (1998) – Self
• Nulle part ailleurs (1987) – Self
• Objectif Nul (1987) – Lui-même
• Omar Sy, c'est ta chance (2018) – Self
• La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président (2022) – Self (archive footage)
• Il était une fois Champs-Élysées (2022) – Self
• On n'est pas couché (2006) – Self - Guest
• Gainsbourg, l'homme qui aimait les femmes (2010) – Narrator (voice)
• Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien (2026)
• The Giaccomo (2026) – Self
• C à vous (2009) – Self - Panelist
• Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès (2022) – Self
• Les Guignols, les 10 premières années (1999) – Self
• Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français (2026) – Self - Chief Executive Officer of Canal+ (1984-2022)
• Quelle époque ! (2022) – Self - Guest
• Stars 90 (1990) – Self
• Bashung, Alain - La tournée des grands espaces (2003) – Director
• Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s) (2023) – Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
• Pierre et Lescure (2020)
• Un jour dans la vie du cinéma français (2002) – Narrator (voice)
• La télé des Nuls (2019) – Self
• Mon Coluche à Moi (2026) – Self
• Télévision (histoires secrètes) (1996) – Self (archive footage)
• La Guerre des télés (2007) – Self
• Beau geste (2023) – Self - Host
• Le temps d'une histoire (2020) – Presenter
• Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires (2016) – Self
• La télé de Valérie Lemercier (2017) – Self
• La folie des années 90 (2010) – Self
• Jean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot (2025) – Self
• Lescure : Tôt ou tard (2010) – Self - Host