Many of the Control agents on *Get Smart *had no names, just numbers or titles (99, The Chief, etc.).
Technically, The Professor and The Skipper had names, but they were only mentioned in the pilot and most people wouldn’t know them.
Isn’t that a device to avoid any spoilers?
Number 6 in The Prisoner. Actually, no character in the Village had a real name. The butler (who appeared in every episode) didn’t even have a number.
Do the characters in Twelve Angry Men have names? The play just refers to them by numbers, but I don’t know if they added names for the movie versions.
But isn’t Tyler just the name he chose for himself? Like, what was his name before he became Tyler Durden? Or was he always Tyler Durden? Also, is it still de rigeur to spoiler stuff about Fight Club? When will it get to the point where Ed Norton being Tyler will be just as obvious as Norman being mother?
Turns out TV Tropes has a page on nameless characters, although many of their examples are cases where the name was eventually revealed or where the character has a first or last name but not both.
Notable TV examples from the list include Fez on That 70s Show (“Fez” is just a nickname, because no one else can pronounce his real name) and a number of supporting characters on The X-Files like Deep Throat and the Well-Manicured Man.
The two main characters in Once remain unnamed.
Wichita says her name.
He is sometimes referred to as “Yemeth.” I’m not 100% sure of the context that this comes from.
Maybe, maybe not. There is no evidence that any of the names he uses are his real names. Including that name.
The narrator of Poe’s “The Tell Tale Heart” has no name, just like his victim.
In the novel (which has a different ending than the movie) he’s actually called Mr. Durden at the end, IIRC. So that suggests to me it’s the name he goes by whether it’s one he split into or not. (But more on this below)
Well I’m somewhat new to Cafe Society having mainly posted in Great Debates till now. Perhaps I erred on the side of caution.
Time for a poll? 
On the narrator in Fight Club…
Well that would just mean it’s a pseudonym but he’d still have a name. As I said above, in the novel, he is addressed by the name we’re alluding to at the very end (unless I’m misremembering).
My thought has always been that it really is his name. I mean if Tyler Durden is just a pseudonym that the narrator uses when he’s being Durden, why not just use two different names instead having the narrator appear to be nameless?
One very special example worth mentioning is Ira Levin’s splendid novel ‘A Kiss Before Dying’. I’m going to tread carefully because I don’t want to spoil the book for anyone who has yet to have the pleasure of reading it, but Levin very deftly and ingeniously takes the ‘nameless character’ idea to new heights, at least for a substantial portion of the book. I won’t say any more. Just read it. And ignore the movie adaptations.
Also the name of the dead baby girl central to the plot of Toni Morrison’s Beloved.
A key character in Dickens’ BLEAK HOUSE is known as “Nemo”–which means “nobody.”
True pseudotriton although the character has an actual name.
What about most of the characters in Ragtime? Weren’t they referred to as things like “Brother?” I’m referring to the book. I don’t know if there was a movie.
Oh, please. There are still people here that get pissed off if you mention that Rosebud was a sled.
Lol…
Oh, and yes there was a Ragtime movie–not terrible either. I don’t remember if they came up with names for the unnamed characters.
That is true of the central family - Father, Mother, Brother - but everybody else had a name.
I am referring to the book also. There was a movie, but all I remember about it is Elizabeth McGovern really, really naked for a nice long scene.
Also something about racial injustice.
Wasn’t she only really, really topless? (Or did her remaining underthings get lost with the racial injustice part?)