- For many years he worked for the forerunners of Bavaria Film at the Emelka Studios in Munich.
- His last works as a production designer came at the beginning of the 30s.
- His brother Ludwig Reiber was a production designer too.
- Willy Reiber also directed few movies as a director from 1925 till 1936.
- To his well-known works of those years belong "I.N.R.I." (1920) and Alfred Hitchcocks "The Mountain Eagle" (1926).
- Willy Reiber was also responsible as a production manager for several movies.
- The production designer Willy Reiber finished an education as an interior designer before he became the head architect for the buildup of the film compound at the Geiselgasteig. He joined the film business after the buildup and he created the set for numerous silent movies of the 20s.
- After the war he took over the position of a production head of the TV station ARD, later he changed to the Bayerischer Rundfunk.
- His niece was the German television host Caroline Reiber.
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