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).

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

[1] 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.