Pierre Lescure

Pierre Lescure

Born: July 2, 1945
in 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 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.

Movies for Pierre Lescure...

Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)
Title: Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)
Character: Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
Released: May 17, 2023
Type: Movie
Documentary on the French graphic and visual artist and designer, editor, artistic director, and teacher who is known for his widely-used fonts.
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Title: Beau geste
Character: Self - Host
Released: January 22, 2023
Type: TV
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Title: Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Character: Self
Released: December 21, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: Quelle époque !
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 24, 2022
Type: TV
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Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
Title: Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
Character: Self
Released: August 24, 2022
Type: Movie
Dark suit, white shirt, earpiece and wooden plate ..., his style remains anchored in the collective memory. Favorite host́ of the French during the 2000s, ideal son-in-law successful producer, his rank of star and flayed́ alive have caused him to burn his wings and lose his feet. This documentary evening recounts the breathless life journey and the twists and turns of Jean-Luc Delarue's career. Telling Jean-Luc Delarue is to tell several lives, the ambivalence of the character publicly strong, powerful and ambitious, but ultra-sensitive and tortured in the intimacy.
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Title: Cannes Festival
Character: Self - Guest
Released: May 17, 2022
Type: TV
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Title: La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 7, 2022
Type: Movie
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 was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three new public channels but autonomous and competing. It is a race for the audience which is engaged then, and from now on the channels will make the war! This competition will give birth to a real golden age for television programs, with variety shows in the forefront. The stars of the song are going to invade the living rooms of the French for their biggest pleasure. This unedited documentary tells the story of the metamorphosis of this television of the early 1970s, between freedom of tone, scandals, political intrigues and programs that have become mythical.
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Pierre & Lescure
Title: Pierre & Lescure
Released: December 27, 2020
Type: Movie
Journalist, columnist, creator of the show Children of Rock, boss of Universal Studios, founder and president of Canal +, president of the Cannes film festival … Pierre Lescure has multiplied helmets throughout its existence. It is on this rich life that the latter agreed to return to the documentary Pierre & Lescure directed by his former colleague, Maxime Switek
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Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
Title: Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
Character: Self
Released: November 21, 2018
Type: Movie
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La télé de Valérie Lemercier
Title: La télé de Valérie Lemercier
Released: November 23, 2017
Type: Movie
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Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
Title: Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
Character: Self
Released: March 14, 2016
Type: Movie
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Title: Lescure : Tôt ou tard
Character: Self - Host
Released: November 7, 2010
Type: TV
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La folie des années 90
Title: La folie des années 90
Released: March 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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Title: C à vous
Character: Self - Panelist
Released: September 7, 2009
Type: TV
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 meal prepared by a qualified chef, artists in promotion.
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A Day at the Museum
Title: A Day at the Museum
Character: Christian
Released: November 19, 2008
Type: Movie
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.
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Title: La Guerre des télés
Character: Self
Released: June 14, 2007
Type: TV
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By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Title: By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Character: le commissaire Richard
Released: April 13, 2005
Type: Movie
The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.
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Les Guignols de l'info - L’Exclusive des 10 ans des Guignols
Title: Les Guignols de l'info - L’Exclusive des 10 ans des Guignols
Character: Self
Released: February 19, 1999
Type: Movie
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Télévision (histoires secrètes)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 20, 1996
Type: TV
The behind-the-scenes story of French television… This documentary unveils the lesser-known history of two audiovisual decades that have shaped today's television. To explain from the break up of the French broadcasting service ORTF, in 1974, to the creation of Arte, via the birth of Canal+, the life and death of La Cinq and the privatization of TF1 — the succession of political, economic and cultural decisions that have shaped what is known as the “PAF” (French Audiovisual Landscape).
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Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
Title: Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
Character: Pierre Lescure
Released: March 9, 1994
Type: Movie
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, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.
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Title: Stars 90
Character: self
Released: September 3, 1990
Type: TV
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Title: Les Guignols de l'info
Character: Self
Released: August 29, 1988
Type: TV
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Title: Nulle part ailleurs
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 1987
Type: TV
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Ladies' Choice
Title: Ladies' Choice
Character: Bruno Estier
Released: September 28, 1982
Type: Movie
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 reconcile their totally different worlds?