Friend of mine had no idea who he was was. I remember commercials of the sneaky toilet paper squeezer from LONG ago.


LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Dick Wilson, the character actor and pitchman who for 21 years played an uptight grocer begging customers "Please, don't squeeze the Charmin," died Monday. He was 91.

The man famous as TV's "Mr. Whipple" died of natural causes at the Motion Picture & Television Fund Hospital in Woodland Hills, said his daughter Melanie Wilson, who is known for her role as a flight attendant on the ABC sitcom "Perfect Strangers."

Wilson made more than 500 commercials as Mr. George Whipple, a man consumed with keeping bubbly housewives from fondling toilet paper. The punch line of most spots was that Whipple himself was a closeted Charmin-squeezer.

The first commercial aired in 1964 and by the time the campaign ended in 1985 the tag line and Wilson, a former Canadian airman and vaudeville veteran, were pop culture touchstones.

He also played a drunk on several episodes of "Bewitched," and appeared as various characters on "Hogan's Heroes," "The Bob Newhart Show," and Walt Disney productions

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Not sure if you know...he died November 19th.


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Dick Wilson (I)

Date of Birth:
30 July 1916, Preston, Lancashire, England, UK more

Date of Death:
19 November 2007, Woodland Hills, California, USA. (natural causes) more


I LOVED Mr. Whipple when I was a little girl! I'd giggle like anything when people would try to squeeze the Charmin, hehe.

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