Biography

Hyman Engelberg was born on October 7, 1913 in New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Colleen Creedon and Esther Goldstein. He died on December 19, 2005 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

Personal physician to Marilyn Monroe. His patients also included Burt Lancaster, Danny Kaye, Rita Hayworth, and Walter Matthau.

Has three sons Michael, Alan and Lon all of whom are physicians.

Earned his bachelor's and medical degree from Cornell University, qualifying as a doctor by the remarkably young age of 22. Issued a physicians' license in California on 24 March 1937. A lieutenant in the Army Air Force during World War II.

Was Marilyn Monroe's personal physician at the time of her death.

Wrote a 1965 Journal of the American Medical Association study documenting why smokers were more likely to suffer heart attacks than nonsmokers.