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Pierre Lescure

Producer, Actor, Director, Additional CreditsBorn July 2, 1945 (80 years)
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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Between Your Legs

Known For

  • Fanfan
  • The Monster
  • Didier
  • Van Gogh
  • Between Your Legs
  • The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
  • Hell Train
  • Funny Boy
  • La tribu
  • Les enfants du rock

Pierre Lescure Filmography

2000
Le monde de Marty · as Co-Producer
1999
Humanity · as Co-Producer
1999
1997
Didier · as Co-Producer
1994
1993
1991
1991
1991
1987
1985
1982

2023
Beau Geste (TV Series) · as Self - Host
2022
Quelle époque ! (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
2022
2022
2021
C Tonight (TV Series) · as Self
2018
2018
Rembob'INA (TV Series) · as Self
2018
Passage des Arts (TV Series) · as Self
2016
C l'hebdo (TV Series) · as Self
2014
Monday in Stories (TV Series) · as Self
2009
C à Vous (TV Series) · as Self - Panelist
2009
C Politique (TV Series) · as Self
2007
One Day, One Fate (TV Series) · as Self
2006
Salut les Terriens (TV Series) · as Self
2006
Ce soir (ou jamais !) (TV Series) · as Self
2006
On n'est pas couché (TV Series) · as Self - Guest
2004
Le grand journal de Canal+ (TV Series) · as Self
2001
En aparté (TV Series) · as Self
2000
L'invité (TV Series) · as Self
2000
Qui veut gagner des millions ? (TV Series) · as Self
1998
Pas vu, pas pris · as Self
1998
Le plus grand Cabaret du monde (TV Series) · as Self
1998
Roll on Sunday (TV Series) · as Self
1998
Tout le monde en parle (TV Series) · as Self
1994
1987
NPA (TV Series) · as Self
1985
Today (FR) (TV Series) · as Self
1982
Les enfants du rock (TV Series) · as Self - Host
1976
César Awards (TV Series) · as Self

2018
Fifty Shades of Greeks (TV Series) · as Ouranos
2008
Musée haut, musée bas · as Christian
2007
Chez Maupassant (TV Series) · as Capitaine Mossu
2006
2005
By the Pricking of My Thumbs · as Le Commissaire Richard
1987
No Mission (TV Series) · as Lui-Même
1982
Le quart d'heure américain · as Bruno Estier

1982
Les enfants du rock (TV Series) · as Creator

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