- Taught drama at Yale after retiring from his career as a director.
- He directed 5 different performers in Oscar-nominated performances: Jocelyne LaGarde, Carol Channing, Robert Redford, Glenn Close and John Lithgow.
- Not to be confused with another ace director of an earlier generation, George W. Hill (1895-1934).
- He has directed two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and The Sting (1973).
- Was nominated for Broadway's 1958 Tony Award as Best Director for "Look Homeward, Angel."
- Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1975.
- Was original choice to direct Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976).
- He studied drama at HB Studios in Greenwich Village in New York City.
- He was offered the chance to direct The Sound of Music (1965) but he turned it down.
- Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945- 1985". Pages 429-433. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
- Uncle of Tim Hill.
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