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.
Acting
Movie
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
as Pierre Lescure
1994
Movie
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
as le commissaire Richard
2005
Movie
Ladies' Choice
as Bruno Estier
1982
Movie
A Day at the Museum
as Christian
2008
TV
Nulle part ailleurs
as Self
1987
TV
Vivement dimanche
as Self
1998
TV
No Goal
as Lui-même
1987
Movie
Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
as Self
2018
TV
On n'est pas couché
as Self - Guest
2006
Movie
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Movie
Gainsbourg and His Girls
as Narrator (voice)
2010
TV
C à vous
as Self - Panelist
2009
TV
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
as Self
2022
Movie
Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
as Self
2022
Movie
Les Guignols, les 10 premières années
as Self
1999
TV
Quelle époque !
as Self - Guest
2022
TV
Stars 90
as Self
1990
Movie
Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)
as Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
2023
Movie
Pierre & Lescure
2020
Movie
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
as Narrator (voice)
2002
Movie
La télé des Nuls
as Self
2019
Movie
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
as Self - Chief Executive Officer of Canal+ (1984-2022)
2026
TV
Télévision (histoires secrètes)
as Self (archive footage)
1996
TV
La Guerre des télés
as Self
2007
Crew
Movie
The Monster
Producer
1994
Movie
Didier
Co-Producer
1997
Movie
Van Gogh
Producer
1991
Movie
Humanité
Co-Producer
1999
Movie
Fanfan
Producer
1993
Movie
Bashung, Alain - La tournée des grands espaces
Director
2003
TV
Le temps d'une histoire
Presenter
2020
TV
Beau geste
Creator
2023
TV
Les Enfants Du Rock
Creator
1982
TV
Sex Machine
Creator
1983