Samuel Gamliel Engel Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Samuel G. Engel (December 29, 1904 – April 7, 1984) was a screenwriter and film producer from the 1930s through 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).Born in Woodridge, New York (then Centreville), Engel earned a degree in pharmacology at the Albany College of Pharmacy and 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. Three years later he was hired to be a producer at 20th Century Fox. After serving with the OSS and US Navy in World War II, he continued as a film producer with 20th Century Fox until 1962.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.
Graduate of Union College, Albany (1924). In films from 1933, as assistant director at Warner Brothers. Joined 20th Century Fox in 1936, remaining there as an independent producer until 1966.
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President of the Producer's Guild of America, 1955-1958. Founder of the Samuel G. Engel video drama awards at Michigan State University. Introduced the category for short film subjects into the Academy Awards.
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Was working for Darryl F. Zanuck at Warner Bros., when Zanuck left to form his own studio. Engel came with the idea of naming the company 20th Century Pictures. Later the company merged with Fox Pictures to become 20th Century-Fox.
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Father of MCA Pay Television president Charles Engel.
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Was a licensed pharmacist and, with his brother Irving, also a pharmacist, who owned a chain of pharmacies in Manhattan before he moved to Hollywood in 1930.
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Earned a degree in pharmacology at the Albany College of Pharmacy, Albany, New York.
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