Actor and marketer Dick Wilson, known widely for his admonition to customers who couldn't help to "Please, don't squeeze the Charmin," died Monday at 91.
With his TV persona George Whipple making over 500 commercials over a 21-year period, Wilson was part of just about everyone's life in America.
His daughter, Melanie Wilson, who played a flight attendant on "Perfect Strangers" for ABC (DIS), said he died of natural causes at the Motion Picture & Television Fund Hospital in Woodland Hills.
Of course the hilarity of the commercial was Mr. Whipple would secretly squeeze the Charmin after telling the ladies not to.
In a statement, Procter & Gamble's (PG) Charmin brand manager Dennis Legault said "that Wilson deserves much of the credit for the product's success in the marketplace."
Along with daughter Melanie, Wilson is survived by his wife, Meg; other daughter, Wendy; and son Stuart.
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