Samuel G. Engel

Samuel Gamliel Engel (December 29, 1904 – April 7, 1984) was a screenwriter and film producer from the 1930s until the 1960s. He wrote and produced such films as My Darling Clementine, Sitting Pretty (1948), The Frogmen (1951), Night and the City (1950), and Daddy Long Legs (1955).

Biography Born in Woodridge, New York (then Centreville), Engel gained a degree in pharmacology from the Albany College of Pharmacy in 1924.

Engel was president of the Screen Producers Guild from 1955 to 1958, and was instrumental in promoting its merger with the analogous guild of television producers to form the Producers Guild of America, and started the televising of the Academy Awards ceremonies as first vice-president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Samuel G.Engel also contributed to the creation of the theater arts department in UCLA.

Personal life Samuel G. Engel had a wife, Ruth, and two sons, Mark and Charles. He had a heart condition for many years before dying in 1984.

Other roles

Fellow of Brandeis University President of the Brandeis Institute

Selected filmography

Screenwriter The Big Shakedown (1934) Sins of Man (1936) Crack-Up (1936) We're Going to Be Rich (1938) Johnny Apollo (1940) Earthbound (1940) Scotland Yard (1941) Private Nurse (1941) My Darling Clementine (1946)

Producer (or co-producer) Crack-Up (1936) My Darling Clementine (1946) Sitting Pretty (1948) The Street With No Name (1948) Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949) Come to the Stable (1949) Night and the City (1950) The Jackpot (1950) Rawhide (1951) Follow the Sun (1951) Belles on Their Toes (1952) Pony Soldier (1952) Daddy Long Legs (1955) Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955) A Man Called Peter (1955) Boy on a Dolphin (1957) The Story of Ruth (1960) The Lion (1962)