Lorenzo Semple Jr. is an American screenwriter and sometime playwright, best known for his work on the campy television series Batman and the political/paranoia movie thrillers The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor . Semple's writing career started in 1951, as a short story contributor to magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's Weekly. Semple also tried writing for the theatre and had two plays produced on Broadway, Tonight in Samarkand , a melodrama adapted from the French, and the comedy The Golden Fleecing . The latter was bought by MGM and produced under the... title The Honeymoon Machine, starring Steve McQueen, following which Semple relocated to Hollywood and established himself as a writer for several television shows, including Kraft Suspense Theatre, Burke's Law, and The Rat Patrol. "I wrote a pilot called, Number One Son about Charlie Chan’s son. A story set in San Francisco.
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| Birthdate: | 1923 |
| Age: | 89 |
| Also known as: | Lorenzo Semple Jr |