Pierre Lescure
Born: 1945-07-02 in Paris, France
Known For: Acting
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
2024
- Jibé et Lucien en coulisses as Self
2023
- Beau geste as Self - Host
- Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s) as Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
2022
- Quelle époque ! as Self - Guest
- Il était une fois Champs-Élysées as Self
- La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président as Self (archive footage)
- Cannes Festival as Self - Guest
- Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès as Self
2020
- Pierre & Lescure
- Le temps d'une histoire ... (Presenter)
2019
- La télé des Nuls as Self
2018
- Omar Sy, c'est ta chance as Self
2017
- La télé de Valérie Lemercier as Self
2016
- Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires as Self
2010
- La folie des années 90 as Self
- Gainsbourg and His Girls as Narrator (voice)
- Lescure : Tôt ou tard as Self - Host
2009
- C à vous as Self - Panelist
2008
- A Day at the Museum as Christian
2007
- La Guerre des télés as Self
2006
- On n'est pas couché as Self - Guest
2005
- By the Pricking of My Thumbs as le commissaire Richard
2003
- Bashung, Alain - La tournée des grands espaces ... (Director)
2002
- A Day in the Life of French Cinema as Narrator (voice)
1999
- Humanité ... (Co-Producer)
- Les Guignols, les 10 premières années as Self
1998
- Vivement dimanche as Self
1996
- Télévision (histoires secrètes) as Self (archive footage)
1994
- The Monster ... (Producer)
- Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy as Pierre Lescure
1993
- Fanfan ... (Producer)
1991
- Van Gogh ... (Producer)
1990
- Stars 90 as Self
1987
- Nulle part ailleurs as Self
- No Goal as Lui-même
1983
- Sex Machine ... (Creator)
1982
- Ladies' Choice as Bruno Estier
- Les Enfants Du Rock ... (Creator)