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
Nick Carter, Master Detective (film) Nick Carter, Master Detective (film) Nick Carter, Master Detective is a 1939 film starring Walter Pidgeon in the title role. Carter investigates espionage at an aircraft factory. Pidgeon and Donald Meek went on to reprise their roles in two sequels, "Phantom Raiders" (1940) and "Sky Murder" (1941). Nick Carter boards an airliner with John Keller, the inventor of a revolutionary new aircraft. The pilot makes an unscheduled landing so that his confederates can try to steal Keller's plans, but Carter holds them off, and stewardess Lou Farnsby manages to fly them to safety. Carter, posing as "Robert Chalmers", the new