 Following disagreement with management changes at Republic's serial team, he moved to directing features films, mostly the B-Western films for which Republic was known.In the post war era whilst William Witney directed a series of Roy Rogers films for Republic, English directed a series of Gene Autry pictures for Columbia Pictures.In the 1952-1953 television season, English directed several episodes of Alan Hale, Jr.'s "Biff Baker, U.S.A." espionage series on CBS.