I think those are model numbers, not serial numbers.
Welll…
Who’s actually the main character in The Red Balloon? If it’s the kid, the main character has a name, Pascal.
But if it’s the balloon (that was the way I always saw it when I watched the movie as a child), there’s no name.
In Fistful, the old coffin-maker (who brings him a stick of dynamite) calles him “Joe.” Doesn’t explain TGTG&TU, though. I remember “Blondie” quite often in that as well.
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Resident Evil, two characters have no name:
Milla Jovovich is never referred to by any name and she can’t remember her name and even after she remembers her name it’s never mentioned.
She’s listed as Alice in the credits. When the movie first came out, the IMDB credited her as Alice/Janus Prospero/Marsha Thompson. It jsut says Alice now.
Also, the Commando Leader is never referred by any name, but he’s listed in the credits as One.
Charlie Chaplin very rarely played characters with names. The IMDB bills him a “A tramp,” “A Lone Prospector,” “Pawnshop Assistant,” “The Inebriate,” “The Derelict,” “An Immigrant,” “Drunk,” "A Jewish Barber, and “A convict,” just to name a few. Others films in the IMDB bill him as “Charlie,” but in many of those cases, the name was never used; it’s just a reference to the actor’s name.
Veronica Lake played “The Girl” in Sullivan’s Travels.
Marilyn Monroe’s character in The Seven Year Itch is also nameless (imdb calls her “The Girl”)
I’m pretty sure the only person that calls Clint “Blondie” in The Good The Bad and The Ugly is Tuco. And Van Cleefs character is Mortimer in both For a Few Dollars More and The Good the Bad andf the Ugly if memory serves right.
I’m going to pop these movies in sometime later and find out for sure.
In the category of “does have a name, but unimportant”:
D-FENS from Falling Down. I think they mention his name talking to his mother, but I believe he is listed in the credits as D-FENS.
He was not Mortimer in TGTB&TU: He was called Angel Eyes but his real name was Sentenza. He’s called that several times throughout the movie. Angel Eyes also calls Clint “Blondie” on several occasions.
2 characters in Angel Heart although they were using names throughout the movie.
In Cheech and Chong’s Up in Smoke, Tommy Chong’s hippie hitchhiker character never introduces himself, and is only referred to by name once, in the scene with his parents (his name is Anthony). None of his friends ever call him by his name.
The Beast in Disney’s Beauty and the east does not have a name. Beauty is Belle
FTR, it’s strongly hinted in HPD that Eastwood’s character ‘The Drifter’ is the ghost of Marshall Jim Duncan (the dwarf is painting Duncan’s name on his tombstone as he rides out of town).
Actually, the Lone Ranger does have a name. It’s John Reid. And his brother’s grandson is/was Britt Reid, the Green Hornet.
In Paint Your Wagon Clint Eastwood’s character is refered to as “Pardner” intil just before the end Ben Rumson(Lee Marvin) asks him “What the hell is your name anyway?” He winces and says “Sylvester Newell”.
In The Usual Suspects Kevin Spacey’s character has a name but there’s a certain level of suspicion that he has another name, which IIRC is never actually applied to him.
Depending on how one defines “lead character,” Charles Gray is credited as “The Criminologist” in Rocky Horror Picture Show.
In El Topo no character has a name (“el topo” translates to “the awkward person”).
Get the fuck off the desk!
In Spirited Away, you don’t find out Haku’s real name till near the end of the film.
[QUOTE=Dooku]
Technically he does have a name in Hang 'Em High - he’s the ghost of the Sherriff who was tortured and killed by the men that ride into town. It’s revealed on the tombstone as he rides out of town.QUOTE]
That was High Plains Drifter. In Hang em High, he survived the hanging and went to work for Judge Parker as a Marshall.
Puzzled. Do you mean the John Carpenter film? IMDB lists Kurt Russell’s character as “R.J. MacReady”. Or do you perhaps count the Thing itself as the lead character :dubious: ? That’s eeeevil. 
Anyway, here’s my favourite cast list:
Ryan O’Neal … The Driver
Bruce Dern … The Detective
Isabelle Adjani … The Player
Ronee Blakley … The Connection
Matt Clark … Red Plainclothesman
Felice Orlandi … Gold Plainclothesman
Joseph Walsh … Glasses
Rudy Ramos … Teeth
Denny Macko … Exchange Man
Frank Bruno … The Kid
Will Walker … Fingers
Sandy Brown Wyeth … Split
Tara King … Frizzy
Richard Carey … Floorman
Fidel Corona … Card Player
From Walter Hill’s The Driver. I especially like “Glasses” and “Teeth”.
Does being called “The Driver” in a film called “The Driver” count as nameless? Hmmm…