The parallel between character as personality in literature, theatre or film and character as a letter or a number go back to "K", character in Kafka's novels that actually represent the writer himself.
Other characters with names reduced to letters or numbers usually represent personalities unworthy or unwilling to be named publicly because of taboos connected to sexuality, "O" in "Histoire d "O" , or some mysterious personalities associated with crime or terrorism ("M" from Fritz Lang film, "V" from "V for vendetta").
In Slavko Vorkapitch "Life and death of Hollywood extra 9413" a character (personality) is reduced to a character (number) by power of bureaucracy.
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