Samuel G. Engel

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Samuel Gamliel Engel (born December 29, 1904 in Woodridge , United States , † April 7, 1984 in Santa Cruz , United States) was an American screenwriter and film producer .

Live and act

Before Samuel G. Engel joined the film industry in 1930, he studied pharmacology at the Albany College of Pharmacy and ran a chain of drug stores with his brother Irving in the New York borough of Manhattan in the 1920s. He began his film career as a second assistant director at the production company Warner Bros. Engel finally rose to the position of first assistant director and a reader in Warner's story department in 1933 to become a screenwriter with the same company. In 1936 he also provided the story for the Shirley Temple -Heartwarmer The Little Ching Ching . In the same year Engel was able to produce a film for the first time. During World War II , Commander Samuel Engel served in the United States Navy Reserve .

Back in civilian life, Engel was reinstated as a producer by 20th Century Fox . There he made a brilliant comeback right from the start (1946) with John Ford's noble westerners Faustrecht der Prärie . His follow-up production, the lively comedy Belvedere, the misunderstood genius , was a great success with both audiences and critics. Samuel Engel landed further hits in the action-packed films between 1948 and 1952 in which Richard Widmark played the leading roles (Street Without a Name, The Rat of Soho , Frogmen , The Fire Jumpers of Montana ) . In later years, Engel was also responsible for the production of large-budget prestige productions such as the Fred Astaire musical Daddy Langbein , the treasure hunt drama The Boy on the Dolphin with Alan Ladd and Sophia Loren in the lead roles, and the two-and-a-quarter- hour Bible epic The Book of Ruth . At this peak of his career, from 1955 to 1958, Engel also served as President of the Screen Producers Guild .

Filmography

As a screenwriter
  • 1933: The Big Shakedown
  • 1936: Sins of Man
  • 1937: She Had to Eat
  • 1939: Viva Cisco Kid
  • 1940: Earthbound
  • 1941: Scotland Yard
  • 1941: Charlie Chan in Rio
  • 1941: Private nurse
  • 1942: Young America
  • 1942: Thru Different Eyes
  • 1946: Law of the Prairie (My Darling Clementine)
As a producer

literature

  • International Motion Picture Almanac 1965, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1964, p. 81
  • Ephraim Katz : The Film Encyclopedia, Fourth Edition. Revised by Fred Klein and Ronald Dean Nolen. New York 2001, p. 424

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personal data
SURNAME Engel, Samuel G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engel, Samuel Gamliel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Woodridge , United States
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1984
Place of death Santa Cruz , United States