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
Jibé et Lucien en coulisses
Self · (8 episodes)
2024
Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)
Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
2023
Beau geste
Self - Host · (85 episodes)
2023
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Self · (2 episodes)
2022
Quelle époque !
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
2022
Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
Self
2022
Cannes Festival
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
2022
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage)
2022
Pierre & Lescure
2020
La télé des Nuls
Self
2019
Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
Self
2018
La télé de Valérie Lemercier
Self
2017
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
Self
2016
Lescure : Tôt ou tard
Self - Host · (1 episode)
2010
La folie des années 90
Self
2010
Gainsbourg and His Girls
Narrator (voice)
2010
C à vous
Self - Panelist · (167 episodes)
2009
A Day at the Museum
Christian
2008
La Guerre des télés
Self · (2 episodes)
2007
On n'est pas couché
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
2006
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
le commissaire Richard
2005
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Narrator (voice)
2002
Les Guignols, les 10 premières années
Self
1999
Vivement dimanche
Self · (2 episodes)
1998
Télévision (histoires secrètes)
Self (archive footage) · (2 episodes)
1996
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
Pierre Lescure
1994
Stars 90
Self · (1 episode)
1990
Nulle part ailleurs
Self · (1 episode)
1987
Ladies' Choice
Bruno Estier
1982