Jean Chalopin

Jean Chalopin
File:Jean Chalopin.jpg
Born	(1950-05-31) 31 May 1950 Tours, France
Occupation	Bank executive Television/film producer Screenwriter
Years active	1971–present
Children	2

Jean Chalopin (born 31 May 1950) is a French screenwriter, producer and bank executive. During the 1980s and early 1990s, he made several successful children's programs as founder of the production company DIC. He now heads Bahamas-based Deltec Bank.

Career

In 1971, Chalopin formed with the backing of Radio Television Luxembourg the company Diffusion, Information Communications (DIC) which later evolved into DIC Entertainment. At DIC, he wrote and produced programmes animated by overseas studios.

In 1987, Chalopin founded the company Créativité et Développement (eng: Creative and Development or C&D) after selling his shares in DIC and continued to produce cartoons in the late 1980s and 1990s. C&D had offices in Paris and Tokyo while setting up Jetlag Productions as its American affiliated company. C&D had purchased the DIC library foreign distribution rights from Saban Entertainment soon after Saban had acquired them from DIC in 1987. In 1996, Chalopin sold the C&D library to Fox Kids Worldwide, while the company itself was absorbed into Saban International Paris.

After moving to the Bahamas in 1987, Chalopin began investing in Deltec Bank and Trust, eventually becoming its largest shareholder and chairman. According to Chalopin, as chairman he sought out smaller technology-related businesses, including Tether and its controlling company Bitfinex in 2018. At that time, Deltec was the only bank willing to work with the cryptocurrency.

Screenwriting credits

• asterisk = head writer

Television

• Ulysses 31 (1981-1982)*
• The Mysterious Cities of Gold (1982-1983)*
• Pole Position (1984)*
• Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors (1985-1986)
• Inspector Gadget (1985-1986)*
• The New Adventures of He-Man (1990)
• Adventures of the Little Mermaid (1991)*
• The Twins of Destiny (1991-1992)*
• The Adventures of T-Rex (1992-1993)*
• Around the World in Eighty Dreams (1992)
• King Arthur and the Knights of Justice (1992-1993)*
• Conan the Adventurer (1993)
• The Bots Master (1993-1994)*
• Happy Ness: Secret of the Loch (1995)*
• Space Strikers (1995)*
• Littlest Pet Shop (1995)
• Gadget Boy & Heather (1996)
• Gadget & the Gadgetinis (2002-2003)*
• Sabrina’s Secret Life (2003-2004)*
• The Mysterious Cities of Gold (2012-2013)

Film

• Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer (1985)

Producer

Television

• Ulysses 31 (1981-1982)
• The Littles (1983-1985)
• Inspector Gadget (1983-1986)
• Kidd Video (1984)
• The Get Along Gang (1984)
• Pole Position (1984)
• Heathcliff (1984-1985)
• Rainbow Brite (1984-1986)
• Care Bears (1985)
• Hulk Hogan’s Rock ‘n’ Wrestling (1985-1986)
• Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors (1985-1986)
• M.A.S.K. (1985-1986)
• Photon (1986-1987)
• Popples (1986-1987)
• The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin (1986-1987)
• Zoobilee Zoo (1986-1987)
• Dennis the Menace (1986-1988)
• Kissyfur (1986-1990)
• The Real Ghostbusters (1986-1991)
• The New Adventures of He-Man (1990)
• The Twins of Destiny (1991-1992)*
• King Arthur and the Knights of Justice (1992-1993)
• The Adventures of T-Rex (1992-1993)
• Conan the Adventurer (1993)
• The Bots Master (1993-1994)
• Littlest Pet Shop (1995)
• Space Strikers (1995)

Film

• Poochie (1984)
• Here Come the Littles (1985)
• Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer (1985)
• Heathcliff: The Movie (1986)
• Liberty (1986)
• The Kingdom Chums: Little David’s Adventure (1986)
• Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas (1992)

External links

• Jean Chalopin at the Internet Movie Database