Background
He was born in 1916 in Gravesend, Kent, England Douglas Snelling arrived in Wellington, New Zealand, with his parents in 1926.As a teenager, began his own graphic arts and shop window design business in Wanganui.
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In 1937 he travelled to Hollywood, where he freelanced making sketches, and began to emulate Errol Flynn"s style. He returned to New Zealand in 1938 and became a writer, broadcaster and publicist of new movies and stars from 1938 to 1940. He moved to Sydney in 1940 and worked as a publicist and in a munitions factory during the beginning of World World War World War II With her money he opened a business designing shop windows and furniture.
When they returned to Australia in 1948, Snelling met a United States architect, Harry Seidler, and began designing houses.
He became a registered architect in 1952. He built modernist houses, apartment buildings, and office buildings.
In 1985, he was concerned enough about his failing health to suddenly book a flight back to Sydney, where he died several days later of a brain aneurism.
