Is there a very famous family named Pitchford?
I don’t know about a famous family named “Pitchford”, but this guy is shaping up a familiar template.
- father in intelligence
- child prodigy
- interest in magic
- deep in Hollywood
- rich
- accused of deviant sexual behaviour
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From Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Pitchford
Pitchford’s father worked within the United States intelligence system, device high-technology equipment for other agents. His father has brought home one of the computers he had developed in 1975, when Pitchford was five years old, and later gave Pitchford his own computer, built by his himself, when Pitchford was seven.[1] Pitchford quickly grapsed the BASIC language to try to emulate arcade games of the time. He wrote his first game (a 16-room text adventure) when he was about 11 or 12 on the machine. Pitchford stated that he played Colossal Cave Adventure and was enamored by the game that he used a hex editor to examine the code and partially figured out some of the programming concepts behind it. When a BASIC version of the game was released, he was able to review the source code directly, allowing him to determine how to construct his own text adventures, leading him into game development.
Pitchford was also interested in magic, as he was the great-nephew of Richard Valentine Pitchford, a magician known by his stage name Cardini. Richard had died when Randy was only two years old, but the stories of Richard’s magic performances told by his widow inspired Randy to pursue magic as well.
“ Is there a very famous family known as Pitchford?” >>>
You’re gonna kill me for this, but are you possibly thinking of the enormously famous 1930’s star, Mary Pickford, who married the reknown publisher, HERSH, and who built her an equally famous Hollywood Hills castle/mansion and scandalously known as “Pickford”?