person

Pierre Lescure

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1945-07-02

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. 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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Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy

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By the Pricking of My Thumbs

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La télé de Valérie Lemercier

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Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)

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Omar Sy, c'est ta chance

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Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès

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Ladies' Choice

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La folie des années 90

Mar 01, 2010

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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

Jan 07, 2022

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Pierre & Lescure

Dec 27, 2020

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Les Guignols, les 10 premières années

Feb 19, 1999

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A Day at the Museum

Nov 19, 2008

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A Day in the Life of French Cinema

May 20, 2002

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La télé des Nuls

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Gainsbourg and His Girls

Jan 18, 2010

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Télévision (histoires secrètes)

Apr 20, 1996

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La Guerre des télés

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Nulle part ailleurs

Aug 31, 1987

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Quelle époque !

Sep 24, 2022

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Beau geste

Jan 22, 2023

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Lescure : Tôt ou tard

Nov 07, 2010

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Cannes Festival

May 17, 2022

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C à vous

Sep 07, 2009

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Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

Dec 21, 2022

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Vivement dimanche

Sep 20, 1998

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Stars 90

Sep 03, 1990

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Jibé et Lucien en coulisses

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On n'est pas couché

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