The Narrator (Fight Club) Narrator is voiced by Dave Wittenberg while Tyler is voiced by Joshua Leonard. In 2008, Tyler was selected by "Empire" magazine as the greatest movie character of all time. When the list was redone in 2015, he placed at number 8. The Narrator (Fight Club) The Narrator, also known as Tyler Durden, is a fictional character appearing as both the central protagonist and antagonist of the 1996 Chuck Palahniuk novel "Fight Club", its 1999 film adaptation of the same name, and the comic book "Fight Club 2". The character has dissociative identity disorder, and is depicted as an unnamed everyman
Chuck Palahniuk his father, Fred Palahniuk, had started dating a woman named Donna Fontaine, whom he had met through a personal ad under the title "Kismet". Her former boyfriend, Dale Shackelford, had previously been imprisoned for sexual abuse, and had vowed to kill Fontaine as soon as he was released from prison. Palahniuk believes that, using a personal ad, Fontaine was looking for "the biggest man she could find" to protect her from Shackelford, and Palahniuk's father qualified. After his release, Shackelford followed Fontaine and the senior Palahniuk to Fontaine's home in Kendrick, Idaho after they had gone out for a date.