Pierre Lescure
Known for
Acting
Born
July 2, 1945 (age 81)
Birthplace
Paris, France
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...
Best known work
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
1994
The Monster
1994
Didier
1997
Van Gogh
1991
Humanité
1999
Fanfan
1993
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
2005
Ladies' Choice
1982
A Day at the Museum
2008
Vivement dimanche
1998Filmography
2026
2026
The Giaccomoas Self
2026
My Colucheas Self
2026
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma françaisas Self - Chief Executive Officer of Canal+ (1984-2022)
2025
2024
2023
Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)as Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
2023
2022
2022
2022
2022
2022
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était présidentas Self (archive footage)
2020
2020
2019
La télé des Nulsas Self
2018
Omar Sy, c'est ta chanceas Self
2017
La télé de Valérie Lemercieras Self
2016
Eddy Mitchell, itinérairesas Self
2010
2010
La folie des années 90as Self
2010
Gainsbourg and His Girlsas Narrator (voice)
2009
2008
A Day at the Museumas Christian
2007