Pierre Lescure
Acting
Born 1945-07-02
Paris, France
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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.
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Filmography
Vivement dimanche
C à vous
Beau geste
Nulle part ailleurs
On n'est pas couché
Quelle époque !
Stars 90
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
No Goal
The Monster
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
Jibé et Lucien en coulisses
Fanfan
Didier
Cannes Festival
Les Guignols, les 10 premières années
La Guerre des télés
Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien
Van Gogh
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
My Coluche
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Humanité
Ladies' Choice
Télévision (histoires secrètes)
Les Enfants Du Rock
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
Lescure : Tôt ou tard
Gainsbourg and His Girls
A Day at the Museum
Le temps d'une histoire
Jean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot
Sex Machine
Pierre & Lescure
La télé des Nuls
Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)
La télé de Valérie Lemercier
Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
Bashung, Alain - La tournée des grands espaces
La folie des années 90
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