Lorenzo Semple Jr.

Lorenzo Semple Jr.

1923-03-27 Mount Kisco, New York, USA 28 Credits

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".

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Batman '66 Meets the Green Hornet

Batman '66 Meets the Green Hornet

2020

Script Consultant

8.0

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

The Road to Casino Royale

2008

Acting

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

The Era of Chan

2008

as Self

Acting

Film historians discuss the Charlie Chan films

Batman: A Dynamic Legacy

Batman: A Dynamic Legacy

2008

as Self

Acting

I look at the legacy of the the 1966 Batman television series

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

2008

as Self

6.4
Acting

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

6.0
Acting

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

Pretty Poison

1996

Screenplay

2.5
Writing

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

Rapture

1993

Teleplay

2.0

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

Never Too Young to Die

Never Too Young to Die

1986

Screenplay

4.6
Writing

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

Rearview Mirror

1984

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

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

Sheena

1984

Screenplay

5.7
Writing

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!

The Bengal Lancers!

1984

Writer

1.0
Writing

30 minutes of footage left after the finances collapsed.

Never Say Never Again

Never Say Never Again

1983

Screenplay

6.1
Writing

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

Flash Gordon

1980

Screenplay

6.2
Writing

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

Hurricane

1979

Writer, Executive Producer

4.7
Writing Producing

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

King Kong

1976

Screenplay

6.3
Writing

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

Three Days of the Condor

1975

Screenplay

7.3
Writing

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

The Drowning Pool

1975

Screenplay

6.3
Writing

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

The Parallax View

1974

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

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

The Super Cops

1974

Writer

6.0
Writing

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

Papillon

1973

Screenplay

7.8
Writing

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

The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker

1971

Screenplay

3.5
Writing

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

The Sporting Club

1971

Writer

3.9
Writing

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

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

1969

Screenplay

5.0
Writing

A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered.

Pretty Poison

Pretty Poison

1968

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

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

Fathom

1967

Screenplay

6.1
Writing

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

Batman

Batman

1966

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

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

The Honeymoon Machine

1961

Theatre Play

6.4

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...