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

    11/19/2007 11:04:54 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 28 replies · 512+ views
    AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 11/19/07 | Jeff Wilson - 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. Wilson 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." "He is part of the culture. He was still funny to the very end. That's his legacy," his daughter said. Wilson made more than 500 commercials as Mr. George Whipple, a man consumed with keeping bubbly...