During her career, she appeared with all the great stars of French cinema, including Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Raimu, Jeanne Moreau, Danielle Darrieux, Micheline Presle, Paul Meurisse, Gérard Philipe, Louis Jouvet, Michel Simon, Simone Signoret, Fernandel, Jean-Louis Barrault.
He served as a professor at the Paris Conservatoire, teaching, among others, Pierre Fresnay, Valentine Tessier, Hélène Dieudonné, Françoise Rosay, and Marioara Ventura and became a Chevalier in the Legion of Honor.
Engel became a Professor at the Paris Conservatory in 1907 and taught there until World War I. Amongst his other pupils were Louis Cazette, Louis Guénot, Françoise Rosay, and the Canadian tenor Rodolphe Plamondon.
Françoise Hardy | Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan | Françoise Sagan | Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon | Marie Françoise Catherine de Beauvau-Craon | Marie-Françoise Bucquet | Françoise Rosay | Françoise Mouly | Françoise-Marie LeRoy | Françoise de Panafieu | Françoise de Graffigny | Françoise de Foix | Françoise Ardré | ''Thérèse-Françoise Potain Roland, Wife of the Sculptor'', terra cotta | Princess Françoise d'Orléans (1844–1925) | Françoise Nielly | Françoise Marie de Bourbon | Françoise Mallet-Joris | Françoise Madeleine d'Orléans | Françoise Laborde | Françoise Giroud | Françoise Faucher | Françoise Fabian | Françoise Dürr | Françoise Dior | Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné | Françoise Chandernagor | Françoise Boivin | Francoise Blanchard | Françoise Barré-Sinoussi |
1965: La Métamorphose des cloportes (The Metamorphosis of woodlice) (adaptation and dialogue with Michel Audiard and Albert Simonin) - Director: Pierre Granier Deferre, with Lino Ventura, Charles Aznavour, Irina Demick, Pierre Brasseur, Georges Geret Maurice Biraud, Francoise Rosay