Pierre Lescure
Known for ActingBorn 1945-07-02Paris, 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.
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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.
Known for
My Coluche
2026 · as Self
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
1994 · as Pierre Lescure
Jean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot
2025 · as Self
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
2005 · as le commissaire Richard
Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien
2026
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022 · as Self (archive footage)
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002 · as Narrator (voice)
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
2026 · as Self - Chief Executive Officer of Canal+ (1984-2022)
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
2016 · as Self
Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
2018 · as Self
A Day at the Museum
2008 · as Christian
La télé des Nuls
2019 · as Self
Ladies' Choice
1982 · as Bruno Estier
Gainsbourg and His Girls
2010 · as Narrator (voice)
La télé de Valérie Lemercier
2017 · as Self
Les Guignols, les 10 premières années
1999 · as Self
Pierre & Lescure
2020
Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
2022 · as Self