- Directed 3 actors to Oscar nominations: Leslie Howard (Best Actor, Pygmalion (1938)), Wendy Hiller (Best Actress, Pygmalion (1938)), and Margaret Rutherford (Best Supporting Actress, Hôtel international (1963)). Rutherford won an Oscar for her performance.
- His half-sister, Lady Violet Bonham Carter, was the grandmother of Helena Bonham Carter.
- Son of H.H. Asquith, the first Earl of Oxford and Asquith, British WWI Prime Minister.
- Doubled in blonde wig for Phyllis Neilson-Terry in Boadicea (1927).
- Mother was a leading society figure, Margot Tennant.
- Buried in family plot in the church yard of Sutton Coutenay, near Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
- Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 8-12. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
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