Pierre Lescure
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.
Acting (16 movies)
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
2016
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
1994
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
2005
La télé de Valérie Lemercier
2017
Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)
2023
Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
2018
Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
2022
Ladies' Choice
1982
La folie des années 90
2010
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022
Pierre & Lescure
2020
Les Guignols, les 10 premières années
1999
A Day at the Museum
2008
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002
La télé des Nuls
2019
Gainsbourg and His Girls
2010
Directing (1 movie)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Van Gogh | 1991 | Producer |
| Fanfan | 1993 | Producer |
| The Monster | 1994 | Producer |