Born in Buffalo, NY. Art director and production designer who entered American film as an art director for IN GOD WE TRU$T (1980). Other notable credits include BRAINSTORM and THE ADVENTURES OF BOB & DOUG McKENZIE: STRANGE BREW (both 1983), RACING WITH THE MOON and THE WOMAN IN RED (both 1984), PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE and MY SCIENCE PROJECT (both 1985), BACK TO SCHOOL and ARMED AND DANGEROUS (both 1986), SUMMER SCHOOL (1987), MOVING (1988), SHE'S OUT OF CONTROL (1989), COLD DOG SOUP (1990, also assoc. producer), BILL & TED'S BOGUS JOURNEY (1991), CLASS ACT (1992), DEMOLITION MAN (1993), TERMINAL VELOCITY (1994), VEGAS VACATION and AN ALAN SMITHEE FILM: BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN (both 1997), SOLDIER (1998), THE WHOLE NINE YARDS (2000), THE ONE (2001), DEUCES WILD (2002), REDLINE (2007) and DAYS OF WRATH and MARBLE CITY (both scheduled for 2008). Snyder's daughter is motion picture make-up artist Amy L. Snyder-Taylor. His wife, since 1990, is actress Terry Finn.  Nominated for Art Direction/Set Decoration 1982: BLADE RUNNER - Art Direction (w. Lawrence G. Paull) 1 nomination