- Directed 6 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Edmund Gwenn, Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby, Gig Young, Helen Hayes, and Maureen Stapleton. Gwenn, Kelly, and Hayes won Oscars for their performances in one of Seaton's movies.
- His wife, Phyllis Loughton Seaton, was the first female mayor of Beverly Hills.
- In 1933, he was the original radio Lone Ranger (using the name George Stenius) and then left the role after two-and-a-half months to pursue a career as a writer in New York.
- (1948-1949) President of the Screen Writers Guild.
- President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1955 to 1958.
- Wrote the screenplay for five Oscar Best Picture nominees: Stage Door (1937), The Wizard of Oz (1939), The Song of Bernadette (1943), Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and The Country Girl (1954).
- It was announced in June 1965 that George Seaton was to direct MGM's Merrilly We Roll Along based on the Broadway hit with George Peppard starring.
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