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Lorenzo Semple Jr.

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Lorenzo Elliott Semple Jr. (born 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 the political/paranoia movie thrillers The Parallax View (1974) and Three Days of the Condor (1975). [1]

79 relations: American Broadcasting Company, Batman (1966 film), Batman (comic book), Batman (TV series), Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, Box office, Box office bomb, Broadway theatre, Brooks School, Buckskin (TV series), Burke's Law (1963 TV series), Camp (style), Collier's, Comic book, Cult film, Daddy's Gone A-Hunting, Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969 film), Dalton Trumbo, David Giler, David Newman (screenwriter), David Rayfiel, Death by natural causes, Dino De Laurentiis, Eon Productions, Fathom (film), Flash Gordon (film), Hurricane (1979 film), Internet Broadway Database, James Bond in film, King Kong (1976 film), Kraft Suspense Theatre, Larry Cohen, Los Angeles, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Mia Farrow, NBC Matinee Theater, Never Say Never Again, Never Too Young to Die, New Rochelle, New York, New York Film Critics Circle, Papillon (1973 film), Pauline Kael, Pretty Poison (film), Raquel Welch, Screenwriter, Sean Connery, Sheena (film), Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, Short story, Spain, ..., Steve McQueen, Television pilot, Television show, The Alcoa Hour, The Bengal Lancers!, The Drowning Pool (film), The Green Hornet (TV series), The Honeymoon Machine, The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker, The New York Times, The Parallax View, The Rat Patrol, The Rogues (TV series), The Saturday Evening Post, The Sporting Club, The Sporting Club (film), The Super Cops, The Wall Street Journal, Thompson's Ghost, Three Days of the Condor, Tracy Keenan Wynn, United States, Vacation Playhouse, Walter Hill, William Dozier, Writer, Yale University, YouTube, 20th Century Fox. Expand index (29 more) »

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Batman (1966 film)

Batman (often promoted as Batman: The Movie) is a 1966 American superhero film based on the ''Batman'' television series, and the first full-length theatrical adaptation of the DC Comics character Batman.

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Batman (comic book)

Batman is an ongoing American comic book series featuring the DC Comics superhero Batman as its main protagonist.

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Batman (TV series)

Batman is a 1960s American live action television series, based on the DC comic book character of the same name.

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Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967.

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Box office

A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event.

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Box office bomb

In the motion picture industry, a "box office bomb" or "box office flop" is a film that is considered highly unsuccessful or unprofitable during its theatrical run, often following significant hype regarding its cost, production, or marketing efforts.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Brooks School

Brooks School is a private, co-educational, preparatory, secondary school in North Andover, Massachusetts on the shores of Lake Cochichewick.

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Buckskin (TV series)

Buckskin is an American Western television series starring Tom Nolan, Sally Brophy, and Mike Road.

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Burke's Law (1963 TV series)

Burke's Law is an American detective series that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1966.

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Camp (style)

Camp is an aesthetic style and sensibility that regards something as appealing because of its bad taste and ironic value.

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Collier's

Collier's was an American magazine, founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier.

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Comic book

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.

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Cult film

A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following.

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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1925) is a drama film directed by Frank Borzage based upon a play by Zoë Akins, with adaptation by Kenneth B. Clarke.

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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969 film)

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting is a 1969 thriller film directed by Mark Robson and starring Carol White, Paul Burke, and Scott Hylands.

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Dalton Trumbo

James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist who scripted many award-winning films including Roman Holiday, Exodus, Spartacus, and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.

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David Giler

David Giler (born 1943) is an American filmmaker who has been active in the motion picture industry since the early 1960s.

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David Newman (screenwriter)

David Newman (February 4, 1937 – June 27, 2003) was an American screenwriter.

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David Rayfiel

David Rayfiel (September 9, 1923 – June 22, 2011) was an American screenwriter and frequent collaborator of director Sydney Pollack.

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Death by natural causes

A death by natural causes, as recorded by coroners and on death certificates and associated documents, is the end result of an illness or an internal malfunction of the body not directly caused by external forces, typically due to old age.

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Dino De Laurentiis

Agostino "Dino" De Laurentiis (8 August 1919 – 10 November 2010) was an Italian film producer.

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Eon Productions

Eon Productions (an abbreviation of "Everything or Nothing") is a British film production company that produces the ''James Bond'' film series.

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Fathom (film)

Fathom is a 1967 British spy comedy film directed by Leslie H. Martinson, starring Raquel Welch and Anthony Franciosa.

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Flash Gordon (film)

Flash Gordon is a 1980 science fiction action film based on the King Features comic strip of the same name created by Alex Raymond.

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Hurricane (1979 film)

Hurricane is a 1979 romance and adventure film featuring Mia Farrow and Jason Robards, produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Lorenzo Semple, Jr., and directed by Jan Troell.

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Internet Broadway Database

The Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) is an online database of Broadway theatre productions and their personnel.

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James Bond in film

The James Bond film series is a British series of spy films based on the fictional character of MI6 agent James Bond, "007", who originally appeared in a series of books by Ian Fleming.

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King Kong (1976 film)

King Kong is a 1976 American monster film produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Guillermin.

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Kraft Suspense Theatre

The Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American television anthology series that was produced and broadcast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC.

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Larry Cohen

Lawrence G. "Larry" Cohen (born July 15, 1941) is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Mia Farrow

María de Lourdes "Mia" Villiers Farrow (born February 9, 1945) is an American actress, activist, and former fashion model.

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NBC Matinee Theater

Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from October 31, 1955, to June 27, 1958.

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Never Say Never Again

Never Say Never Again is a 1983 American spy film starring Sean Connery, directed by Irvin Kershner, produced by Jack Schwartzman, and written by Lorenzo Semple Jr. with uncredited additional co-writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, from a story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Ian Fleming.

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Never Too Young to Die

Never Too Young To Die is a 1986 action adventure comedy directed by Gil Bettman.

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New Rochelle, New York

New Rochelle is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the southeastern portion of the state.

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New York Film Critics Circle

The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) is an American film critic organization founded in 1935 by Wanda Hale from the New York Daily News.

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Papillon (1973 film)

Papillon is a 1973 historical period drama prison film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner.

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Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael (June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker magazine from 1968 to 1991.

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Pretty Poison (film)

Pretty Poison is a 1968 psychological thriller/black comedy 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.

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Raquel Welch

Raquel Welch (born Jo Raquel Tejada; September 5, 1940) is an American actress and singer.

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Screenwriter

A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter for short), scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs, comics or video games, are based.

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Sean Connery

Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is a retired Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award) and three Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award).

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Sheena (film)

Sheena, also known as Sheena: Queen of the Jungle, is a 1984 Columbia Pictures film in Metrocolor based on a comic-book character that first appeared in the late 1930s, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

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Sheena, Queen of the Jungle

Sheena, Queen of the Jungle is a fictional American comic book jungle girl heroine, originally published primarily by Fiction House.

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Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood, however there are many exceptions to this.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Steve McQueen

Terence Steven McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was an American actor.

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Television pilot

A television pilot (also known as a pilot or a pilot episode and sometimes marketed as a tele-movie) is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell the show to a television network.

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Television show

A television show (often simply TV show) is any content produced for broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, cable, or internet and typically viewed on a television set, excluding breaking news, advertisements, or trailers that are typically placed between shows.

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The Alcoa Hour

The Alcoa Hour is an American anthology television series that was aired live on NBC from 1955 to 1957.

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The Bengal Lancers!

The Bengal Lancers! is a 1984 British film.

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The Drowning Pool (film)

The Drowning Pool is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, and based upon Ross Macdonald's novel of the same name.

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The Green Hornet (TV series)

The Green Hornet television series aired on the ABC US television network in the 1966–1967 TV season, starring Van Williams as the Green Hornet/Britt Reid and Bruce Lee as Kato.

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The Honeymoon Machine

The Honeymoon Machine is a 1961 film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Steve McQueen, Brigid Bazlen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Jack Mullaney, and Dean Jagger, based on the 1959 Broadway play The Golden Fleecing by Lorenzo Semple Jr..

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The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker

The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker is an American romantic comedy-drama film released in 1971, based on a novel of the same title by Charles Webb.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Parallax View

The Parallax View is a 1974 American political thriller film directed and produced by Alan J. Pakula, and starring Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels and Paula Prentiss.

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The Rat Patrol

The Rat Patrol was an American action and adventure television series that aired on ABC between 1966 and 1968.

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The Rogues (TV series)

The Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13, 1964, to April 18, 1965, starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Gig Young as a related trio of former conmen who could, for the right price, be persuaded to trick a very wealthy and heinously unscrupulous mark.

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The Saturday Evening Post

The Saturday Evening Post is an American magazine published six times a year.

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The Sporting Club

The Sporting Club is the 1968 debut novel of author Thomas McGuane.

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The Sporting Club (film)

The Sporting Club is a 1971 American comedy film directed by Larry Peerce and written by Lorenzo Semple Jr. It is based the 1968 novel The Sporting Club by Thomas McGuane.

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The Super Cops

The Super Cops is a 1974 film directed by Gordon Parks and starring Ron Leibman and David Selby.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Thompson's Ghost

Thompson's Ghost is a 1966 TV movie.

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Three Days of the Condor

Three Days of the Condor is a 1975 American political thriller film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, and Max von Sydow.

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Tracy Keenan Wynn

Tracy Keenan Wynn (born February 28, 1945 in Hollywood, California, USA) is an American screenwriter whose credits include The Longest Yard, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (both 1974), and The Deep (1977).

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vacation Playhouse

Vacation Playhouse was an American comedy and drama which was broadcast during the Summer months on CBS from July 22, 1963–August 21, 1967.

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Walter Hill

Walter Hill (born January 10, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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William Dozier

William McElroy Dozier (February 13, 1908 – April 23, 1991) was an American film and television producer and actor.

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Writer

A writer is a person who uses written words in various styles and techniques to communicate their ideas.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, doing business as 20th Century Fox, is an American film studio currently owned by 21st Century Fox.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo_Semple_Jr.

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