Actor
Pierre Lescure
July 2, 1945 · 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.
Notable work
Often works with
Chantal Lauby
2 titles together
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy, No Goal
Alain Chabat
2 titles together
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy, No Goal
Valérie Lemercier
2 titles together
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy, A Day at the Museum
Dominique Besnehard
2 titles together
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy, A Day in the Life of French Cinema
André Dussollier
2 titles together
By the Pricking of My Thumbs, A Day at the Museum
Gérard Jugnot
2 titles together
Ladies' Choice, A Day at the Museum
Full filmography · 10
Carolco, un rêve hollywoodien
cast
2026
Pierre & Lescure
cast
2020
Gainsbourg and His Girls
as Narrator (voice)
2010
A Day at the Museum
as Christian
20084.5
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
as le commissaire Richard
20056.2
Bashung, Alain - La tournée des grands espaces
Director
2003
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
as Narrator (voice)
2002
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
as Pierre Lescure
19947.5
Ladies' Choice
as Bruno Estier
19826