Allan Pinkerton Pinkerton in a Season 2 episode of "Drunk History". Pinkerton is also a recurring character in the 2014 series "The Pinkertons", played by Angus Macfadyen. Pinkerton is also portrayed in an episode of "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams", by Don Galloway (1937-2009), and in the 1994 American biographical western film "Frank and Jesse" by William Atherton. In but in these cases, as in the others, he seems to be portrayed with an American accent, although he was Scottish by birth, and may still have retained his Scots accent. Hardboiled crime fiction writer Dashiell Hammett was employed by the
Roscoe Arbuckle by David Yallop and "Frame-Up! The Untold Story of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle" by Andy Edmonds are other books on Arbuckle's life. The 1963 novel, "Scandal in Eden" by Garet Rogers, is a fictionalized version of the Arbuckle scandal. Fatty Arbuckle's was an American-themed restaurant chain in the UK prominent during the 1980s and named after Arbuckle. "Stoneface", a 2012 play by Vanessa Claire Stewart about Buster Keaton, depicts Keaton's and Arbuckle's friendship and professional relationship. Arbuckle is played by actor Brett Ashy in the motion picture "Return to Babylon" (2013). The scandal is described during the climax of the film