 Lorenzo Semple Jr.

Lorenzo Elliott Semple III (March 27, 1923March 28, 2014) was an American screenwriter and sometime playwright, best known for his work on the campy television series "Batman", and received writing credit on the political/espionage films "The Parallax View" (1974) and "Three Days of the Condor" (1975).He was professionally known as Lorenzo Elliott Semple Jr.

Semple attended the Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts, graduating in 1940.