Mr. Whipple From Charmin TV Ads Dies

This past Monday, Dick Wilson the pitchman who played Mr. Whipple in the Charmin tissue commercials, died at the age of 91. He died of natural causes at the Motion Picture & Television Fund Hospital in Woodland Hills. For more than 21 years he made over 500 commercials playing Mr. George Whipple. Wilson also played a drunken character on several episodes of “Bewitched,” played many characters on “Hogan’s Heroes,” and was on “The Bob Newhart Show.”