About
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.
Filmography
Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien2026
My Coluche2026 · Self
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français2026 · Self - Chief Executive Officer of Canal+ (1984-2022)
Jean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot2025 · Self
Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)2023 · Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès2022 · Self
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président2022 · Self (archive footage)
Pierre & Lescure2020
La télé des Nuls2019 · Self
Omar Sy, c'est ta chance2018 · Self
La télé de Valérie Lemercier2017 · Self
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires2016 · Self
La folie des années 902010 · Self
Gainsbourg and His Girls2010 · Narrator (voice)
A Day at the Museum2008 · Christian
By the Pricking of My Thumbs2005 · le commissaire Richard
A Day in the Life of French Cinema2002 · Narrator (voice)
Les Guignols, les 10 premières années1999 · Self
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy1994 · Pierre Lescure
Ladies' Choice1982 · Bruno Estier