Biography
​Lorenzo Semple Jr. was an American film and television screenwriter, best known for his work on the television series "Batman" and the feature films "The Parallax View", "Papillon", and "Three Days of the Condor".
Known For
Complete Filmography

Batman '66 Meets the Green Hornet
2020
Script Consultant
The episodes "A Piece of the Action" and "Batman's Satisfaction" have been edited together, along with other scenes and period TV promos of the 1966 t...

The Road to Casino Royale
2008
Documentary that traces the tangled rights to Ian Fleming's "Casino Royale," the first James Bond story, which took over a half century to reach the s...

The Era of Chan
2008
as Self
Film historians discuss the Charlie Chan films

Batman: A Dynamic Legacy
2008
as Self
I look at the legacy of the the 1966 Batman television series

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
2008
as Self
Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary director Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
2001
as Self
Documentary about legendary Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis who's credits range from Fellini's La Strada to today's Hannibal franchise. This profi...

Pretty Poison
1996
Screenplay
A clueless cheerleader falls for a mysterious young man who tells her he's a secret agent. But the truth is much simpler and darker.

Rapture
1993
Teleplay
A computer software designer becomes obsessed with his now-married high-school crush of 20 years before.

Never Too Young to Die
1986
Screenplay
Secret agent Drew Stargrove is brutally murdered by the ruthless hermaphrodite gang leader Velvet Von Ragnar. The murdered secret agent's son, Lance S...

Rearview Mirror
1984
Screenplay
When the psychopathic jailbreaker Hopps and his cousin steal a camper to continue their flight, they notice too late that there's a baby on the back s...

Sheena
1984
Screenplay
Sheena's parents are killed while on Safari. She is raised by the mystical witch woman of an African tribe. When her foster mother is framed for the m...

The Bengal Lancers!
1984
Writer
30 minutes of footage left after the finances collapsed.

Never Say Never Again
1983
Screenplay
James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuc...

Flash Gordon
1980
Screenplay
A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.

Hurricane
1979
Writer, Executive Producer
The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will of her father, the powerful gov...

King Kong
1976
Screenplay
An oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to exploit him.

Three Days of the Condor
1975
Screenplay
When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those r...

The Drowning Pool
1975
Screenplay
Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. ...

The Parallax View
1974
Screenplay
An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corpora...

The Super Cops
1974
Writer
The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Ro...

Papillon
1973
Screenplay
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his esca...

The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
1971
Screenplay
A stockbroker is stuck in a dreary job and a marriage that's become a dull routine. To cope with the boredom and frustration, he resorts to voyeurism ...

The Sporting Club
1971
Writer
The wealthy members of an exclusive backwoods retreat face an existential threat from both a disgruntled former manager as well as a subversive, anarc...

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
1969
Screenplay
A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered.

Pretty Poison
1968
Screenplay
A troubled arsonist spins a tale of espionage to a captivating girl, who becomes enthralled and entangled in his dangerous fantasies, leading to unexp...

Fathom
1967
Screenplay
While touring abroad in Europe, beautiful American skydiver Fathom Harvill gets wrapped up in international intrigue when Scottish spy Douglas Campbel...

Batman
1966
Screenplay
The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.

The Honeymoon Machine
1961
Theatre Play
Lt. Fergie Howard teams up with Lt. Beau Gilliam and Navy scientist Jason Eldridge to turn a supercomputer with missile-tracking capabilities into a t...