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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Paris, France, 1945-07-02

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1982	Ladies' Choice	Bruno Estier	61
2	1994	Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy	Pierre Lescure	75
3	1999	Les Guignols, les 10 premières années	Self	70
4	2002	A Day in the Life of French Cinema	Narrator (voice)	0
5	2005	By the Pricking of My Thumbs	le commissaire Richard	62
6	2008	A Day at the Museum	Christian	45
7	2010	Gainsbourg and His Girls	Narrator (voice)	41
8	2010	La folie des années 90	Self	0
9	2016	Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires	Self	0
10	2017	La télé de Valérie Lemercier	Self	0
11	2018	Omar Sy, c'est ta chance	Self	60
12	2019	La télé des Nuls	Self	0
13	2020	Pierre & Lescure		80
14	2022	La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président	Self (archive footage)	72
15	2022	Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès	Self	80
16	2023	Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)	Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+	80

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1987	Nulle part ailleurs	Self	56
2	1990	Stars 90	Self	62
3	1996	Télévision (histoires secrètes)	Self (archive footage)	100
4	1998	Vivement dimanche	Self	30
5	2006	On n'est pas couché	Self - Guest	52
6	2007	La Guerre des télés	Self	80
7	2009	C à vous	Self - Panelist	60
8	2010	Lescure : Tôt ou tard	Self - Host	0
9	2022	Cannes Festival	Self - Guest	0
10	2022	Quelle époque !	Self - Guest	50
11	2022	Il était une fois Champs-Élysées	Self	66
12	2023	Beau geste	Self - Host	0
13	2024	Jibé et Lucien en coulisses	Self	0

Pierre Lescure

Film

Television