After completing his military service, he worked at the Pittsburgh International Airport as head of the facility's fire department.
He later worked as a civilian contractor for the Air Force as a disaster preparedness officer, where he developed plans to deal with chemical, biological, and nuclear warfare.
[1] As a means to deal with on-the-job stress, his wife Sharon Ceccatti, an actress, convinced him to participate in acting classes at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, which he started in the early 1970s.
[1] In other films, Hill played such roles as a bum in a bar, a detective, a priest and was an announcer at a basketball game together with Marv Albert.
[1] He cast extras and other additional roles for the films All the Right Moves starring Tom Cruise released in 1983, the 1986 film Gung Ho directed by Ron Howard and 1988's Dominick and Eugene that starred Tom Hulce and Ray Liotta.