David L. Snyder

David next appeared with the cast & creative team for the world premiere of "Untitled" at the 2009 Palm Springs International Film Festival; was invited by New York's Museum of Modern Art to introduce "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" at the 2009-10 Tim Burton Retrospective and he was a member of the "Blade Runner @ 30" panel at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con and a MAGI 3D seminar with "Blade Runner" and "Brainstorm" colleague Douglas Trumbull held at China Central Television / CCTV headquarters in Beijing, China in January 2015.

David lives in West Los Angeles with his wife, actress Terry Finn, who is most noted for creating the role of Gussie Carnegie in the original Broadway cast of the George Furth / Steven Sondheim / Hal Prince musical comedy "Merrily We Roll Along" and it's subsequent "Original Broadway Cast 20th Anniversary Reunion Concert" held at the La Guardia Concert Hall in Lincoln Center (2002) and was featured in the 2016 documentary feature film entitled "Best Worst Thing That Ever Happened" revisiting the Broadway musical. Their 21 year old son Finn Henry Snyder appeared on "Modern Family", "Brooklyn Nine Nine"; "R.L. Stine's Mostly Ghostly"; an episode of "Destroy Build Destroy" on the Cartoon Network; appeared on "Conan" singing background with the pop music band FUN and most recently as a vocal performer on "The Late Late Show with James Corden". David's daughter Amy L. Taylor is a busy television and motion picture make-up artist and son David Michael is an Executive V.P. with the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks.

In 1994 he designed "Rainbow", the motion picture Industry's first live-action, digital to 35mm theatrical feature film starring & directed by Bob Hoskins.

David went on to design Taylor Hackford's feature directorial debut, "The Idolmaker" and soon returned to science-fiction as the art director on Ridley Scott's 1982 future-noir classic "Blade Runner". David received an Academy Award© nomination for Best Art Direction he shared with Lawrence G. Paull, the film's production designer. The film was also awarded the British Academy Award (BAFTA©) for Best Production Design/Art Direction. Since that time he has designed nearly fifty feature films including "Into The Rainbow 3D", "The Whole Nine Yards", "The One", "Soldier", "Demolition Man", "Super Mario Bros. ", "Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey" and Tim Burton's cult classic feature film directorial debut, "Pee-wee's Big Adventure".

Following a year in 'live' television, David was soon recruited by Universal Studios and spent a year and a half art directing science fiction television series such as "Galactica 1980", "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century", "The Incredible Hulk" and "Captain America".

David L. Snyder became obsessed with show business at H. C. Technical High School in his hometown of Buffalo, New York. Together with classmates Lance Sherman, Grover Washington, Jr. and Michael Di Figlia (who would soon become Michael Bennett, creator of Broadway's "A Chorus Line") staged the 1959 "Tech High Musical Revue.

"After stumbling through life as a rock 'n' roll drummer, architectural designer, graphic designer and theatrical stage designer he began his Hollywood career as the assistant art director on the 50th Annual Academy Awards©.

Snyder has appeared as a guest speaker on the subject 'the art of motion picture design' at The 1st Annual Tokyo International Film Festival; The American Film Institute; The University of California at Los Angeles and the 45th Annual New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center. There, an academic panel discussion was followed by the U. S.

premiere of "Blade Runner-The Final Cut", celebrating the film's 25th Anniversary.