From books, probably–I can’t think of any characters from films with no names. I don’t mean like someone who’s Extra #2 or whatever–I mean main characters.
I guess it only works in the first person. The protagonist of Rebecca is nameless, as is the protagonist of Dahl’s the Witches. Was the Rebecca main character nameless in the movie as well? I didn’t see it.
Anyon else?
Perhaps characters like “The Butler” or the “The General”?
Never saw it.
Well, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is something you have to see if you’ve got any interest in movies. And you don’t have to like westerns to enjoy it.
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I’ll find the Youtube Poop version of it, thanks.
I don’t recall that any of the names of John Brunner’s Traveller in Blackwere ever actually mentioned. He has “many names but only one nature”, and tends to be referred to like that ( “a certain personage who has many names and but one nature” ), or as “who was that fellow?”.
Bill Pronzini has a zillion books in his Nameless Detective series. There’s a kind of awkwardness when Nameless has to be introduced to someone, but otherwise the books are very entertaining in a B-movie kind of way.
The narrator of Samuel Delany’s Hogg has no name, though he is frequently referred to as “cocksucker.” He also only has one line of dialog in the entire book.
How did I know there’d be a Hogg post as soon as I saw that you were the last person to post in this thread?
Maybe because you read Hogg and remembered that the narrator has no name? Anyway, like it or not, it falls under the OP’s category (and I spared you any graphic descriptions.)
It seems to be more common in England for some reason. The name of the main character in Layer Cake is never revealed, and also there’s the Doctor and #6 from those old TV shows.
Kevin Costner’s character in The Postman had no name. Ironically, he had one in the book (“Gordon”) but not in the movie.
Neither did Costner’s character in Waterworld. He was just credited as “The Mariner”.
In my favorite car movie, Two Lane Blacktop, none of the characters have names or are even refered to by name. In the closing credits even the cars get billing. See the cast list here:
Just a great movie.
The novel The Historian has a nameless narrator.
The main character in Rebeca is named Mrs De Winter.
The Man With No Name is called Joe.
The Doctor’s name is The Doctor.
No 6 was named Peter Smith.
Some really nameless characters include Monroe’s character in The Seven Year Itch, the main character in Fight Club, the American in Hell In The Pacific and most of Charlie Chaplin’s characters.
Yeah, but she has no first name. Before she marries Maxim, she’s not anything.
Let’s not forget about the other the Doctor, Star Trek: Voyager’s the Doctor.