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Lorenzo Elliott Semple III (March 27, 1923 – March 28, 2014), known professionally as Lorenzo Semple Jr., was an American writer. He is best known for his work on the television series Batman, as well as political thriller films The Parallax View (1974) and Three Days of the Condor (1975).
Mar 28, 2014 · Lorenzo Semple Jr., the creator of the campily classic Batman TV series who went on to craft such big-screen paranoid thrillers as The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor — though he would...
Apr 3, 2014 · Lorenzo Semple, Jr., who died last week at the age of 91, may have been one of the last of the great gadflies. A nephew of Philip Barry, Semple wrote plays and short magazine fiction when he was young, but he found his niche in his forties, when the producer William Dozier hired him to “create” the Batman TV series.
Semple died Friday of natural causes at his home in Brentwood a day after his 91st birthday, said his wife, Joyce.
Jan 8, 2015 · Lorenzo Semple Jr., 1923–2014. The writer who made Batman funny. By The Week Staff. last updated 8 January 2015. In the 1970s, Lorenzo Semple Jr. was one of Hollywood’s most in-demand...
We're sad to hear of the passing of writer Lorenzo Semple, Jr., who died this morning at the age of 91 in Los Angeles, CA. Semple served as a journalist during World War II and broke into Hollywood writing for Burke's Law, The Aloca Hour, The Rogues, and The Rat Patrol before creating the iconic TV show Batman.
Lorenzo Elliott Semple Jr. (March 27, 1923, New Rochelle, New York, USA - March 28, 2014, Brentwood, California, USA) was one of the most successful Hollywood screenwriters of the 1970's.
