Arthur William John Becker III (May 23, 1927 – September 12, 2015) was an American theatre critic and film distributor.
Becker transferred to Duke University, then Harvard, where he met George Plimpton.
He next studied abroad as a Rhodes Scholar at Wadham College, Oxford, earning a Ph.D.[2] Becker's service with the United States Navy sent him to Guam.
He spent the 1950s writing for The Hudson Review, where he met Roger L. Stevens, who later financed Becker's acquisition of Playbill.
Becker died of kidney failure on September 12, 2015, in Southampton, New York at the age of 88.