Pierre Lescure

Known for ActingBorn 1945-07-02 (age 80)Paris, 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. 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Le temps d'une histoire

Télévision (histoires secrètes)

No Goal

My Coluche

Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)

Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès

Pierre & Lescure

La Guerre des télés

Bashung, Alain - La tournée des grands espaces

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy

A Day in the Life of French Cinema

The Monster

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

Humanité

Van Gogh

Fanfan

By the Pricking of My Thumbs

C à vous

Omar Sy, c'est ta chance

Stars 90

Didier

Nulle part ailleurs

Ladies' Choice

Les Guignols, les 10 premières années

Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français

Quelle époque !

On n'est pas couché

A Day at the Museum

Gainsbourg and His Girls

Vivement dimanche

Beau geste

La télé des Nuls

Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien

Jean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot

Jibé et Lucien en coulisses

Cannes Festival

La télé de Valérie Lemercier

Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires

La folie des années 90

Lescure : Tôt ou tard

Sex Machine

Les Enfants Du Rock