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Walter William Becker is an American filmmaker and novelist, whose directorial credits include the films Van Wilder (2002), Wild Hogs (2007), and Old Dogs (2009).
Walter Carl Becker (February 20, 1950 – September 3, 2017) was an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He was the co-founder, guitarist, bassist, and co-songwriter of the jazz rock band Steely Dan. Becker met future songwriting partner Donald Fagen while they were students at Bard College. After a brief period of activity in ...
2 Mac 2023 · The Tragic Death Of Steely Dan's Walter Becker. Jim Steinfeldt/Getty Images. By Eric Meisfjord / Updated: March 2, 2023 3:24 pm EST. Writing his obituary, the Associated Press reported that Steely Dan's Walter Becker "had the gift of relative anonymity in a field where celebrity can do incalculable damage."
4 Sep 2017 · Rob Sheffield mourns Steely Dan's elusive genius Walter Becker, who died the same day as the United States' greatest living writer, poet John Ashbery.
3 Sep 2017 · Walter Becker, the guitarist and songwriter who made suavely subversive pop hits out of slippery jazz harmonies and verbal enigmas in Steely Dan, his partnership with Donald Fagen, died on...
3 Sep 2017 · Walter Becker, a guitarist, bassist, and co-founder of Steely Dan, passed away on Sunday morning. He was sixty-seven, and living in Maui.
22 Sep 2017 · Walter Becker was a brilliant perfectionist behind one of rock's most eccentric bands, Steely Dan. He had a troubled childhood, a dark sense of humor, and a love of jazz, sci-fi and Beat writing.
