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Pierre Lescure
Born: 2nd Jul 1945 Paris, France
Dept: Acting
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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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 32
Film: 18 (56%)
Television: 14 (44%)
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Filmography
2025
He never scored a single goal as a professional, but he profoundly transformed soccer. Starting from nothing, Jean-Claude Darmon ushered in a new era ... view
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Self
2023
Documentary on the French graphic and visual artist and designer, editor, artistic director, and teacher who is known for his widely-used fonts. ... view
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Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
Sep 2022 (first aired)
Talk show hosted by Léa Salamé, featuring incisive, funny, and surprising personalities debating current events in culture, society, politics, and t ... view
Character:
Self - Guest (1 ep.)
2022
Dark suit, white shirt, earpiece and wooden plate ..., his style remains anchored in the collective memory. Favorite host́ of the French during the 2 ... view
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Self
2022
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions w ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
Original title: Pierre et Lescure
2020
Journalist, columnist, creator of the show Children of Rock, boss of Universal Studios, founder and president of Canal +, president of the Cannes film ... view
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Original title: Gainsbourg, l'homme qui aimait les femmes
2010
Provocative, misunderstood, unloved, cynical poet... Serge Gainsbourg as seen by the women in his life: Juliette Gréco, Vanessa Paradis, Jane Birkin, ... view
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Narrator (voice)
Sep 2009 (first aired)
Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second part, the program welcomes, around a m ... view
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Self - Panelist (273 ep.)
Original title: Musée haut, musée bas
2008
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par ... view
Character:
Christian
Sep 2006 (first aired)
On n'est pas couché was a French talk show broadcast on France 2 on Saturdays at 11 p.m., hosted by Laurent Ruquier assisted by various columnists. ... view
Character:
Self - Guest (1 ep.)
Original title: Mon petit doigt m'a dit...
2005
The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home. ... view
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le commissaire Richard
Original title: Un jour dans la vie du cinéma français
2002
Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, dir ... view
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Narrator (voice)
1999
A four-hour journey through the first ten years of Les Guignols. Cult sequences, historic sketches, reference expressions... offer sixty or so “Guig ... view
Character:
Self
Apr 1996 (first aired)
The behind-the-scenes story of French television… This documentary unveils the lesser-known history of two audiovisual decades that have shaped toda ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage) (2 ep.)
Original title: La Cité de la peur
1994
A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, w ... view
Character:
Pierre Lescure
Original title: Le Quart d'heure américain
1982
As a result of an automobile accident, a sophisticated TV producer meets her car mechanic/blue collar nemesis. They start a comic affair, but can they ... view
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Bruno Estier