{{short description|American film producer (1904–1984)}} {{more citations needed|date=April 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Samuel G. Engel | image = Henry Koster, Samuel G. Engel, and Arthur E. Arling on the set of The Story of Ruth.jpg | image_size = 250px | caption = Engel (center) with director Henry Koster and cinematographer Arthur Arling on the set of ''The Story of Ruth'' (1960) | birth_name = Samuel Gamliel Engel | birth_date = {{birth date|1904|12|29}} | birth_place = Woodridge, New York | death_date = {{death date and age|1984|04|07|1904|12|29}} | death_place = Santa Cruz, California | occupation = Screenwriter, film producer and assistant director | alma_mater = Albany College of Pharmacy | relatives = Irving 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'' (1946), ''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.<ref name=":0" />
Samuel G.Engel owned a chain of drug stores in Manhattan with his brother Irving, before moving to Los Angeles in 1930. Engel signed on as an assistant director at Warner Bros. in 1933, and joined the script department the following year. In 1936, he was hired to be a producer at 20th Century Fox.<ref name=":0" />
After serving with the OSS and US Navy in World War II, he continued as a film producer with 20th Century Fox until 1962, and continued as an independent producer until 1966.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Veteran film producer Samuel G. Engel was buried Monday...|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/04/10/Veteran-film-producer-Samuel-G-Engel-was-buried-Monday/9149450421200/|access-date=2021-05-28|website=UPI|language=en}}</ref>
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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Ap|date=1984-04-12|title=SAMUEL G. ENGEL DEAD AT 70; LED SCREEN PRODUCERS GUILD|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/12/obituaries/samuel-g-engel-dead-at-70-led-screen-producers-guild.html|access-date=2021-05-27|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
Samuel G.Engel also contributed to the creation of the theater arts department in UCLA.<ref name=":0" />
== 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.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
== Other roles ==
* Fellow of Brandeis University<ref name=":0" /> * President of the Brandeis Institute<ref name=":0" />
==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)
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=0257143|name=Samuel G. Engel}}
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