* Wilson, 91, the character actor and pitchman who for 21 years played an uptight grocer begging customers "Please, don't squeeze the Charmin," died Nov. 19 at the Motion Picture & Television Fund Hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif. No cause of death was reported.
His death was reported by his daughter Melanie Wilson, known for her role as a flight attendant on the ABC sitcom "Perfect Strangers."
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Mr. 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 was a closeted Charmin squeezer.
Mr. Wilson's first Charmin commercial aired in 1964. By the time the campaign ended in 1985, the tag line and Mr. 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.
He was born in England in 1916, the son of a vaudeville entertainer and a singer. He moved to Canada as a child, serving in the Canadian Air Force during World War II, and became a U.S. citizen in 1954, he told the Associated Press.
In addition to his daughter Melanie, Mr. Wilson is survived by his wife, Meg, and two other children.
