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.
Filmography
all 37
Movies 23
self 21
TV Shows 14
Producer 6
Director 1
Voice 1
Creator 1
Writer 1
Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s) (2023)
Beau geste (2023)
Quelle époque ! (2022)
Cannes Festival (2022)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président (2022)
Lescure : Tôt ou tard (2010)
C à vous (2009)
A Day at the Museum (2008)
By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2005)
A Day in the Life of French Cinema (2002)
Humanité (1999)
Télévision (histoires secrètes) (1996)
The Monster (1994)
Délit mineur (1994)
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy (1994)
Fanfan (1993)
Van Gogh (1991)
The Tribe (1991)
Sex Machine (1983)
Ladies' Choice (1982)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1945-07-02 (79 years old)
Birth PlaceParis, France
FatherFrançois Lescure
SiblingsRoland Lescure
RelativesPierre de Lescure
CitizenshipsFrance
AwardsInternational Emmy Founders Award, manager de l'année
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