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
Allan Pinkerton Greenhow. In the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire", an agent of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency runs an undercover operation to coax a murder confession out of a major character. Pinkerton is a major character in the 2001 film "American Outlaws", portrayed by Timothy Dalton. Pinkerton's role in foiling the assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln was dramatized in the 2013 film "Saving Lincoln", which tells President Lincoln's story through the eyes of Ward Hill Lamon, a former law partner of Lincoln who served as his primary bodyguard during the Civil War. Pinkerton is played by Marcus J. Freed. Charlie Day portrayed