Lorenzo Semple, Jr.
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| Born |
Lorenzo Elliott Semple III March 27, 1923 New Rochelle, New York, U.S. |
| Died | March 28, 2014 (aged 91) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Brooks School, Yale University |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Spouse(s) | Joyce Miller (m. 1963–2014, his death) |
| Children | Two daughters, one son, one stepson |
Lorenzo Elliott Semple Jr. (born Lorenzo Elliott Semple III; March 27, 1923 – March 28, 2014) was 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 (1974) and Three Days of the Condor (1975).
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 (1955), a melodrama adapted from the French, and the comedy Golden Fleecing (1959). The latter was bought by MGM and produced under the title The Honeymoon Machine (1961), 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.
From an interview with he and Jon Dambacher, "I wrote a pilot called Number One Son about Charlie Chan’s son. A story set in San Francisco. I wrote the script which was okay, everybody liked it, which is about all you can expect, and we were thinking about casting and everything then ABC called William Dozier saying, 'This is very embarrassing but word just came down we’re not to do any program with an ethnic lead.' They didn’t want a Chinese person in it. So they said, 'We’re very embarrassed but we owe you one.'"
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