- Directed one Oscar-winning performance: Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou (1965).
- Former stepfather of David Cassidy.
- 1985 winner of the Robert B. Aldrich Achievement Award from the Directors Guild of America.
- In 1990, he was awarded the DGA Honorary Life Member Award.
- Graduated from Roxbury (Massachussets) Memorial High School for Boys.
- After retiring from directing in the mid 1990s he spent his final decades teaching at USC.
- He began directing "Great Catherine" in England in 1967, but resigned after a few days, allegedly saying he "didn't want to be a stars' lackey"; he was replaced by Gordon Flemyng.
- Father was a doctor.
- Has a brother Jason.
- Received the Robert B. Aldrich Achievement Award from the DGA in 1985.
- Key force in the formation of the Bill of Creative Rights for directors.
- Graduated with a degree in drama from Boston College.
- Graduated from Yale University with a degree in directing.
- Raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
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