Acting credits
34
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Pierre Lescure
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 26Series: 17Crew credits: 10
TMDB ID: 507238
IMDb ID: nm0503928
Known for: Acting
Born: July 2, 1945
Age: 81
Place of birth: Paris, France
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1982 - 2026
Years active: 45
Average TMDB rating: 6.32
Wikidata: Q3385949
Other jobs
Creator (3)Producer (3)Co-Producer (2)Director (1)Presenter (1)
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Pierre Lescure.
Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien
2026 • Movie
as Self
My Coluche
2026 • Movie
as Self - Chief Executive Officer of Canal+ (1984-2022)
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
2026 • Movie
as Self
Jean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot
2025 • Movie
as Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)
2023 • Movie
as Self
Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
2022 • Movie
as Self (archive footage)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022 • Movie
Pierre & Lescure
2020 • Movie
as Self
La télé des Nuls
2019 • Movie
as Self
Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
2018 • Movie
as Self
La télé de Valérie Lemercier
2017 • Movie
as Self
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
2016 • Movie
as Self
La folie des années 90
2010 • Movie
as Narrator (voice)
Gainsbourg and His Girls
2010 • Movie
as Christian
A Day at the Museum
2008 • Movie
as le commissaire Richard
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
2005 • Movie
Director
Bashung, Alain - La tournée des grands espaces
2003 • Movie
as Narrator (voice)
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002 • Movie
Co-Producer
Humanité
1999 • Movie
as Self
Les Guignols, les 10 premières années
1999 • Movie
Co-Producer
Didier
1997 • Movie
Producer
The Monster
1994 • Movie
as Pierre Lescure
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
1994 • Movie
Producer
Fanfan
1993 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Pierre Lescure.
as Self • 8 eps
Jibé et Lucien en coulisses
2024 • Series
as Self - Host • 110 eps
Beau geste
2023 • Series
as Self • 2 eps
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
2022 • Series
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
Quelle époque !
2022 • Series
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
Cannes Festival
2022 • Series
Presenter • 1 eps
Le temps d'une histoire
2020 • Series
as Self - Host • 1 eps
Lescure : Tôt ou tard
2010 • Series
as Self - Panelist • 274 eps
C à vous
2009 • Series
as Self • 2 eps
La Guerre des télés
2007 • Series
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
On n'est pas couché
2006 • Series
as Self • 2 eps
Vivement dimanche
1998 • Series
as Self (archive footage) • 2 eps
Télévision (histoires secrètes)
1996 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Stars 90
1990 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Nulle part ailleurs
1987 • Series
as Lui-même • 1 eps
No Goal
1987 • Series
Creator
Sex Machine
1983 • Series
Creator
Les Enfants Du Rock
1982 • Series