Pierre Lescure
Date of birth: 1945-07-02
Place of birth: Paris, France
Known for: Acting
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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.
Movie Credits
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
2016-03-14
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
1994-03-09
A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
2005-04-13
The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.
La télé de Valérie Lemercier
2017-11-23
Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)
2023-05-17
Documentary on the French graphic and visual artist and designer, editor, artistic director, and tea
Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
2018-11-21
Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
2022-08-24
Dark suit, white shirt, earpiece and wooden plate ..., his style remains anchored in the collective
Ladies' Choice
1982-11-03
As a result of an automobile accident, a sophisticated TV producer meets her car mechanic/blue colla
La folie des années 90
2010-03-01
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022-01-07
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a n
Pierre & Lescure
2020-12-27
Journalist, columnist, creator of the show Children of Rock, boss of Universal Studios, founder and
Les Guignols, les 10 premières années
1999-02-19
A four-hour journey through the first ten years of Les Guignols. Cult sequences, historic sketches,
A Day at the Museum
2008-11-19
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet d
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002-05-20
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same
La télé des Nuls
2019-11-02
Gainsbourg and His Girls
2010-01-18
Provocative, misunderstood, unloved, cynical poet... Serge Gainsbourg as seen by the women in his li