Lorenzo Semple Jr. (born 1922) is an American screenwriter and film producer, possibly best known for his work on the campy television series Batman. Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... Camp is an aesthetic in which something has appeal because of its bad taste or ironic value. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Batman was the title of an exceptionally popular 1960s TV series based on the comic-book character Batman that aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) for 2 1/2 seasons from 12 January, 1966 to 14 March, 1968. ...

Semple's writing career started in 1951, as a short story contributor to magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Argosy, and Ladies Home Journal. He tried his hand at writing for Broadway and local New York TV programs, before relocating to Hollywood and establishing himself as a writer for several television shows, including Kraft Suspense Theatre, Burke's Law, and The Rat Patrol. This article is in need of attention. ... A cover of the Saturday Evening Post from 1903 The Saturday Evening Post was a weekly magazine published in the United States from August 4, 1821 to February 8, 1969. ... Argosy was an American pulp magazine, considered to be the first pulp magazine, published by Frank Munsey. ... A cover of Ladies Home Journal from 1906 Ladies Home Journal is a magazine first published February 16, 1883 as a womens supplement to the Tribune and Farmer. ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area  Ranked 27th  - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²)  - Width 285 miles (455 km)  - Length 330 miles (530 km)  - % water 13. ... ... Kraft Suspense Theatre is a television show that ran from 1961 - 1963. ... Burkes Law was a detective series which ran on ABC from 1963 to 1966, and then again on CBS from 1994 to 1995. ... The Rat Patrol was an American TV program that aired on ABC during the 1966-1968 seasons. ...

In 1966, he began working as head script writer on the ABC-TV Batman series for producer William Dozier. He wrote most of the early episodes, and his wisecrack-filled, outlandishly plotted scripts set the tone for the entire series' run. In all, he wrote nearly forty of the series's shows. He also provided the screenplay for the Batman theatrical feature film version, also released in 1966. The ABC or Australian Broadcasting Corporation is the national, Australia. ... Batman is a 1966 film spin-off of the popular Batman television series, and was the first full-length theatrical adaptation of the DC Comics character. ...

While his work on Batman was noted for its entertaining silliness, not all of Semple's subsequent screenplays were comedies. His script for the critically acclaimed cult film Pretty Poison (1968) was a career high point, and he later wrote screenplays for such straight dramas as Papillon (1973) (co-written with Dalton Trumbo), The Parallax View (1974), The Drowning Pool (1975), and Three Days of the Condor (1975). But he also wrote the scripts for the popular but critically assailed King Kong-remake (1976) and the deliberately campy Flash Gordon (1980). After Never Say Never Again (1983), an "unofficial" James Bond series entry, Semple's only notable credit was for Sheena (1984), based on the comic book Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. Cult film is a colloquial term for a film that has accrued a small but devoted group of fans, having failed to achieve fame outside that group. ... Pretty Poison is the name of a 1968 film directed by Noel Black, starring Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld, about an ex-convict and high school cheerleader who commit a series of crimes. ... Paperback book cover for Papillon Papillon is a memoir by Henri Charrière. ... Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist, and a member of the Hollywood Ten, one of group of film professionals who refused to testify before the 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee about alleged communist involvement. ... The Parallax View is a 1974 movie directed by Alan J. Pakula and starring Warren Beatty (who was also a producer), adapted from the novel by Loren Singer. ... Written in 1950 by Ross Macdonald, Mystery. ... Three Days of the Condor is a United States motion picture made in 1975. ... King Kong (also known as King Kong: The Legend Reborn) is a 1976 American motion picture produced by Dino de Laurentiis and directed by John Guillermin. ... Flash Gordon is a 1980 British science fiction film, based on the comic-book character Flash Gordon, which was directed by Mike Hodges. ... Never Say Never Again is an unofficial James Bond film and remake of the 1965 film Thunderball. ... The James Bond 007 gun logo James Bond, also known as 007 (pronounced double-oh seven), is a fictional British spy created by writer Ian Fleming in 1952. ... 1984 Columbia Pictures movie based on the comic character of the same name. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Sheena, Queen of the Jungle #18 (Winter 1952-53). ...

Semple was the Executive Producer for Jan Troell's Hurricane (1979), a major box office flop starring Mia Farrow. Executive producer is a role in the entertainment industry that is sometimes difficult to define clearly. ... Jan Troell (born July 23, 1931 in Limhamn outside Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden) is a Swedish film director. ... The term box office can refer to either: A place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to a venue The amount of business a particular production, such as a movie or theatre show, does. ... Look up flop in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Farrow on the cover of Glamour, 1968 Mia Farrow (born Maria de Lourdes Villiers-Farrow on February 9, 1945), is an American actress. ...

External links

• Lorenzo Semple Jr. at the Internet Movie Database