- Directed 2 actors to Oscar nominations: Wallace Beery (Best Actor, The Big House (1930)) and Marie Dressler (Best Actress, Min and Bill (1930)). Dressler won an Oscar for her performance in Hill's film.
- Commissioned a lieutenant in the U.S. Army and served as a combat cameraman for the U.S. Army Signal Corps in France during World War I.
- Slated to direct The Good Earth (1937), Hill was found dead, an apparent suicide, during pre-production work on the film and director Sidney Franklin was called upon to complete the project.
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