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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.