Dick Wilson, Mr. Whipple of `don't squeeze the Charmin,' dies (at 91)

AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 11/19/07 | Jeff Wilson - ap

[NormsRevenge]

Actor Dick Wilson is shown in this undated 1983 file photo. Wilson, the character actor and pitchman who for 21 years played an uptight grocer begging customers 'Please, don't squeeze the Charmin,' died Monday Nov. 19, 2007. He was 91. (AP Photo)

[Constitution Day]

NOW can we squeeze the Charmin?

(RIP Mr. Whipple)

[NormsRevenge]

I don’t think he’d mind one final 21-roll salute.

[advertising guy]

sounds like a decent guy.........I agree w/ his disdain for today’s product

[reagan_fanatic]

I used to love these commercials when I was a kid.

Sorry to see you go, Mr. Whipple. RIP.

[mplsconservative]

RIP Mr. Wilson. Another icon from my childhood gone.

The writer must be a youngster. What the heck is the “Bob Newport Show”?

The only one I remember is the Bob Newhart Show.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Him I remember. The Bob Newport show...no.
RIP Mr. Whipple!

[NormsRevenge]

Good catch. lol.. He’s up there with Marge and Cal Worthington now. ;-)

[NormsRevenge]

oops, not Marge, make that Madge.

.. and who can say they don’t remember the original Maytag repair man.. :-)

[henkster]

I’m glad they mentioned his military service. Many of the actors of his generation served before they became “famous.” (Eddie Albert and James Doohan come to mind).

[mplsconservative]

Now those are names I haven’t heard in awhile. :)

[Squidpup]

[NormsRevenge]

[bannie]

"The Bob Newport Show,"

I haven't seen that one.

[Blogger]

Undated 1983???

[martin_fierro]

A young Adam Savage appeared in a commercial with him. < /trivia >

RIP Mr. Whipple

[ErnBatavia]

Off topic, but my buddy the plumber calls Charmin “The Plumber’s Friend”....it’s absorbent and swells in the water; he gets a lot of unclogging calls.

[JennysCool]

Cal Worthington is still with us.

He has a ranch in my neck of the sage!

[Duke Nukum]

RIP Mr. Whipple and blessings to your family.