- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Father of Mark Engel
- Earned a degree in pharmacology at the Albany College of Pharmacy, Albany, New York.
- 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.
- Father of MCA Pay Television president Charles Engel.
- Father: Morris H. Engel; Mother: Mary Berman.
- In 1959, he was appointed by Twentieth Century Fox to produce a lavish Todd-AO spectacular based on Mary Renault's novel, "The King Must Die", with Henry Koster as director. The film was never made.
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