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Pierre Lescure
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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.
Known For
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Jean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot
2025
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Jibé et Lucien en coulisses
2024
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Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)
2023
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Self - Host
Beau geste
2023
6.6
Self
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022
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Self - Guest
Quelle époque !
2022
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Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
2022
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Self - Guest
Cannes Festival
2022
7.2
Self (archive footage)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022
8.0
Pierre & Lescure
2020
Credits
Jean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot
as Self
2025
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Jibé et Lucien en coulisses
as Self
2024
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Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)
as Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
2023
8.0
Beau geste
as Self - Host
2023
1.0
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
as Self
2022
6.6
Quelle époque !
as Self - Guest
2022
5.0
Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
as Self
2022
8.0
Cannes Festival
as Self - Guest
2022
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
as Self (archive footage)
2022
7.2
Pierre & Lescure
2020
8.0
La télé des Nuls
as Self
2019
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Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
as Self
2018
6.0
La télé de Valérie Lemercier
as Self
2017
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Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
as Self
2016
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Lescure : Tôt ou tard
as Self - Host
2010
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La folie des années 90
as Self
2010
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Gainsbourg and His Girls
as Narrator (voice)
2010
4.1
C à vous
as Self - Panelist
2009
6.1
A Day at the Museum
as Christian
2008
4.5
La Guerre des télés
as Self
2007
8.0
On n'est pas couché
as Self - Guest
2006
5.1
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
as le commissaire Richard
2005
6.2
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
as Narrator (voice)
2002
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Les Guignols, les 10 premières années
as Self
1999
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Vivement dimanche
as Self
1998
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Télévision (histoires secrètes)
as Self (archive footage)
1996
10.0
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
as Pierre Lescure
1994
7.5
Stars 90
as Self
1990
6.2
Nulle part ailleurs
as Self
1987
5.6
No Goal
as Lui-même
1987
8.8
Ladies' Choice
as Bruno Estier
1982
5.9