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Pierre Lescure
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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'HumanitĂ©, and the grandson of Pierre de Lescure, founder of the publishing house Les Ăditions de Minuit. He grew up in Choisy-le-Roi. He studied journalism at the Centre de formation des journalistes de Paris.
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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'HumanitĂ©, and the grandson of Pierre de Lescure, founder of the publishing house Les Ăditions 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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Carolco, un rĂȘve hollywoodien
The Giaccomo
as Self
My Coluche
as Self
Exception culturelle, la bataille qui a sauvé le cinéma français
as Self - Chief Executive Officer of Canal+ (1984-2022)
Jean-Claude Darmon - L'argentier : L'homme, le pouvoir, le foot
as Self
Ătienne Robial, un spĂ©cimen de caractĂšre(s)
as Self - Journalist, chairman of Canal+
Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succÚs en excÚs
as Self
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
as Self (archive footage)
Pierre & Lescure
La télé des Nuls
as Self
Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
as Self
La télé de Valérie Lemercier
as Self
Eddy Mitchell, itinéraires
as Self
La folie des années 90
as Self
Gainsbourg and His Girls
as Narrator (voice)
A Day at the Museum
as Christian
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
as le commissaire Richard
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
as Narrator (voice)
Les Guignols, les 10 premiÚres années
as Self
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
as Pierre Lescure
Ladies' Choice
as Bruno Estier