Pierre Lescure
Acting • Born 1945-07-02
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.
Filmography
32 credits
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
Movie • 2016
Self
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
Movie • 1994
Pierre Lescure
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Movie • 2005
le commissaire Richard
La télé de Valérie Lemercier
Movie • 2017
Self
Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)
Movie • 2023
Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
Movie • 2018
Self
Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
Movie • 2022
Self
Ladies' Choice
Movie • 1982
Bruno Estier
La folie des années 90
Movie • 2010
Self
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Pierre & Lescure
Movie • 2020
Les Guignols, les 10 premières années
Movie • 1999
Self
A Day at the Museum
Movie • 2008
Christian
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Movie • 2002
Narrator (voice)
La télé des Nuls
Movie • 2019
Self
Gainsbourg and His Girls
Movie • 2010
Narrator (voice)
Jean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot
Movie • 2025
Self
Carolco, A Hollywood Dream
Movie
Télévision (histoires secrètes)
TV • 1996
Self (archive footage)
La Guerre des télés
TV • 2007
Self
Nulle part ailleurs
TV • 1987
Self
Quelle époque !
TV • 2022
Self - Guest
Beau geste
TV • 2023
Self - Host
Lescure : Tôt ou tard
TV • 2010
Self - Host
Cannes Festival
TV • 2022
Self - Guest
C à vous
TV • 2009
Self - Panelist
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
TV • 2022
Self
Vivement dimanche
TV • 1998
Self
Stars 90
TV • 1990
Self
Jibé et Lucien en coulisses
TV • 2024
Self
On n'est pas couché
TV • 2006
Self - Guest
No Goal
TV • 1987
Lui-même