Pierre Lescure

Personal Info

Birthday

July 2, 1945

(80 years old)

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Pierre Lescure

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.

Known For

Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy

By the Pricking of My Thumbs

A Day at the Museum

Gainsbourg and His Girls

A Day in the Life of French Cinema

Ladies' Choice

Filmography

2023
Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)
as Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
2022
Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
as Self
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
as Self (archive footage)
2019
La télé des Nuls
as Self
2018
Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
as Self
2017
La télé de Valérie Lemercier
as Self
2016
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
as Self
2010
La folie des années 90
as Self
Gainsbourg and His Girls
as Narrator (voice)
2008
A Day at the Museum
as Christian
2005
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
as le commissaire Richard
2002
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
as Narrator (voice)
1999
Les Guignols, les 10 premières années
as Self
1994
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
as Pierre Lescure
1982
Ladies' Choice
as Bruno Estier