Dick Wilson, the actor who portrayed the persnickety, yet intriguingly flawed, grocer, Mr. Whipple, in decades worth of commercials, died the other day. It had been years since his character had ...

Proctor & Gamble has delayed presenting a lifetime achievement award to Dick Wilson, the actor who portrayed Mr. Whipple in hundreds of ads for P&G's Charmin brand tissue. It admits the reason is ...

The actor who played Mr. Whipple in the Charmin commercials has died. ... "The kind of pictures they're making today, I'll stick with toilet paper," he told The Associated Press in 1985.