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Pierre Lescure
Paris, France
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 publi…
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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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2026
My Coluche
Movie Self
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2026
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
Movie Self - Chief Executive Officer of Canal+ (1984-2022)
- 2025
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2024
Jibé et Lucien en coulisses
TV show Self
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2023
Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)
Movie Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
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2023
Beau geste
TV show Self - Host
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2022
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
TV show Self
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2022
Quelle époque !
TV show Self - Guest
- 2022
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2022
Cannes Festival
TV show Self - Guest
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2022
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Pierre & Lescure
Movie
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2020
Le temps d'une histoire
TV show Presenter
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2019
La télé des Nuls
Movie Self
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2018
Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
Movie Self
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2017
La télé de Valérie Lemercier
Movie Self
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2016
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
Movie Self
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2010
Lescure : Tôt ou tard
TV show Self - Host
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2010
La folie des années 90
Movie Self
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2010
Gainsbourg and His Girls
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2009
C à vous
TV show Self - Panelist
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2008
A Day at the Museum
Movie Christian
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2007
La Guerre des télés
TV show Self
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2006
On n'est pas couché
TV show Self - Guest
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2005
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Movie le commissaire Richard
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2003
Bashung, Alain - La tournée des grands espaces
Movie Director
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2002
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1999
Humanité
Movie Co-Producer
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1999
Les Guignols, les 10 premières années
Movie Self
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1998
Vivement dimanche
TV show Self
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1997
Didier
Movie Co-Producer
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1996
Télévision (histoires secrètes)
TV show Self (archive footage)
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1994
The Monster
Movie Producer
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1994
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
Movie Pierre Lescure
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1993
Fanfan
Movie Producer
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1991
Van Gogh
Movie Producer
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1990
Stars 90
TV show Self
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1987
Nulle part ailleurs
TV show Self
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1987
No Goal
TV show Lui-même
