Acting credits
31
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Pierre Lescure
Acting
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
2.3
Moderate attention
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Movies: 23Series: 17Crew credits: 10
TMDB ID: 507238
IMDb ID: nm0503928
Known for: Acting
Born: July 2, 1945
Age: 80
Place of birth: Paris, France
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1982 - 2025
Years active: 44
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.
Jean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot
as Self
2025 Movie
8.0
Étienne Robial, un spécimen de caractère(s)
as Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
2023 Movie
8.0
Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
as Self
2022 Movie
7.2
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
as Self (archive footage)
2022 Movie
8.0
Pierre & Lescure
2020 Movie
1.0
La télé des Nuls
as Self
2019 Movie
6.0
Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
as Self
2018 Movie
La télé de Valérie Lemercier
as Self
2017 Movie
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
as Self
2016 Movie
La folie des années 90
as Self
2010 Movie
4.1
Gainsbourg and His Girls
as Narrator (voice)
2010 Movie
4.5
A Day at the Museum
as Christian
2008 Movie
6.2
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
as le commissaire Richard
2005 Movie
8.0
Bashung, Alain - La tournée des grands espaces
Director
2003 Movie
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
as Narrator (voice)
2002 Movie
6.7
Humanité
Co-Producer
1999 Movie
4.0
Les Guignols, les 10 premières années
as Self
1999 Movie
6.1
Didier
Co-Producer
1997 Movie
6.9
The Monster
Producer
1994 Movie
7.5
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
as Pierre Lescure
1994 Movie
6.3
Fanfan
Producer
1993 Movie
6.7
Van Gogh
Producer
1991 Movie
5.9
Ladies' Choice
as Bruno Estier
1982 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Pierre Lescure.
Jibé et Lucien en coulisses
as Self • 8 eps
2024 Series
1.0
Beau geste
as Self - Host • 96 eps
2023 Series
6.6
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
as Self • 2 eps
2022 Series
5.0
Quelle époque !
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2022 Series
Cannes Festival
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2022 Series
10.0
Le temps d'une histoire
Presenter • 1 eps
2020 Series
Lescure : Tôt ou tard
as Self - Host • 1 eps
2010 Series
6.1
C à vous
as Self - Panelist • 273 eps
2009 Series
8.0
La Guerre des télés
as Self • 2 eps
2007 Series
5.1
On n'est pas couché
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2006 Series
3.0
Vivement dimanche
as Self • 2 eps
1998 Series
10.0
Télévision (histoires secrètes)
as Self (archive footage) • 2 eps
1996 Series
6.2
Stars 90
as Self • 1 eps
1990 Series
5.6
Nulle part ailleurs
as Self • 1 eps
1987 Series
8.5
No Goal
as Lui-même • 1 eps
1987 Series
Sex Machine
Creator
1983 Series
Les Enfants Du Rock
Creator
1982 Series