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
Jay Pinkerton 2008 and served as a writer for their games. In June 2017, he announced he had left Valve for unspecified reasons. However, he returned to resume working as a writer for Valve in July 2018. Jay Pinkerton Jay Pinkerton (born June 15, 1977) is a Canadian humorist known for co-writing, with Erik Wolpaw, the story of Valve Corporation's video game "Portal 2". A former editor of both Cracked.com and "Cracked" magazine, "PlayStation World" magazine referred to him as a "one-man gag machine". Prior to joining "Cracked", Pinkerton served as the managing editor of NationalLampoon.com, the website of the national comedy