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Lyle Reifsnider

set decorator

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ6707947 ↗
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Leif B. Reifsnider (August 11, 1901 – December 9, 1980) was an American set decorator who worked in Hollywood movies from 1946 to 1962. Nominated for an Academy Award for his work on the Errol Flynn swashbuckler Adventures of Don Juan in 1949, he was also responsible for the set dressings on films such as My Wild Irish Rose (1947), The Flame and the Arrow (1950) and April in Paris (1952).

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“Lyle Reifsnider” enters the record as set decorator. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lyle, Reifsnider and decorator can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lyle Reifsnider” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.