Right – but I was just going on the internal evidence in the Scottish play. While Shakespeare’s plays dealing with English history and Roman history are tolerably true to their sources, he was so remote from the Macbeth era of Scottish history that it might have well been a legendary story, like Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet.
(And Hamlet didn’t have a last name in Shakespeare’s play either.)
Oh, another one is Q from Star Trek: TNG. Apparently, the beings in his race are all named Q so that our primitive minds can understand them, but I believe I remember one episode stating that each Q is, in fact, individually named, but the names are both unpronouncable and unintelligible to our lizard brains.
Sure he did, he was Hamlet Prince.
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The Wicked Witch of the East had no name, either.
Nick Mancuso’s character in the TV series Stingray. He occasionally told people to call him Ray but he made it clear that wasn’t his real name. He only revealed his real name once in the series when he whispered it to another character.
In Futurama, the corporate giant “Mom” to my knowledge is never referred to as anything other than “Mom”.
Charles Gray is credited as “The Criminologist - An Expert,” which is in line with how other actors are credited (“Peter Hinwood as Rocky Horror - A Creation”). In Shock Treatment, Charles Gray plays Judge Oliver Wright, although I’m not sure if this was supposed to be the same character or not. (Confusingly, some actors from RHPS appear in ST as different characters, while some recurring characters are played by different actors.) Of course if you chose to pretend that ST never existed, no one would blame you.
In that case, wouldn’t her name be “Mom”? She’s a robot, so it’s unlikely she’s biologically related to anybody calling her that.
Sorry. I must have missed the page turn.
“Mom” is not a robot; not unless there’s one hell of a plot twist coming up in future Futurama material.
She is also, to the best of my knowledge, never given a real name.
In the Manchurian Candidate the first name of Mrs. Iselin, Raymond’s mother, is never revealed.
The Bible is full of unnamed characters, the most famous probably being Noah’s wife.
‘The Youth’ from Red Badge of Courage. My back shuddered every time he was referred to…that was a long book.
Is that little black kid on South Park really called Token?
I just thought of another one myself - the Emcee from “Cabaret” (played in the film by Joel Grey, and memorably played in the Broadway revival by Alan Cumming.)
The monkey in the closet also.
I came in to mention Potiphar’s wife and Lot’s wife. Although identified only by these spousal designations in the Bible, these and other characters are named in such sources as Middrash, the Book of Jasher, and the Sefer Hayyashar.
Many people who know the Magi as Caspar, Balthasar, and Melchior are unaware that these names are not appended to the Wise Men in the pages of the New Testament.
In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, the main characters are only known as The Boy and The Father, or The Man.
Interesting initials . . .
Charlie Chaplin usually played unnamed characters, ‘a tramp’, ‘a Jewish barber’, ‘recruit’, etc.
McGoohan denies this and as you say it’s never mentioned in the series. Just convenient that the actor went from one secret agent show for ITV to another, fans put two and two together…
http://www.thepennyfarthing.com/articles/drake.htm
Quote:
Drake is not Six simply because McGoohan has said so, so many times. In an interview with Barrington Calia (New Video magazine 1985) when asked: “Is The Prisoner John Drake?”, McGoohan replied: “No! People assume that ‘The Prisoner’ is a sequel to ‘Danger Man’ because I began the project closely afterward”
To address the OP, what about “The Narrator” from H G Wells War of the Worlds?
Came in here to mention this book. Just finished reading it yesterday. I’m interested to see if the upcoming movie does it justice.