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 (comic strip) Nick Carter (comic strip) Nick Carter is an Italian comic strip created in 1972 as a semi-animated cartoon, for "Gulp!", one of the most popular Italian TV shows of that decade. The creators were Guido De Maria, as director and writer, and Franco Bonvicini ("Bonvi"), as co-writer and artist. The first run comprised 11 stories, later reissued, as print comic strips for "Il Corriere dei Ragazzi", and then in numerous other magazines and books. In 1977 the character was revamped for the follow-on TV series "SuperGulp!", with 17 further episodes. The "Nick Carter" episodes number some 80, including those created