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Mr. George Whipple (also known as George the Grocer) [1] is a fictional supermarket manager featured in television commercials, radio, and print advertisements that ran in the United States and Canada from 1964 to 1985 for Charmin toilet paper.
He made 504 commercials as Mr. Whipple, earning U.S. $300,000 annually while working only 12–16 days a year. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] In an interview with ABC News on April 22, 1983, he mentioned that the first series of commercials for Charmin he appeared in were filmed in, appropriately enough, Flushing, New York City . [ 6 ]
Mr. Whipple: Charmin bathroom tissue: 1965–1989: played by D--- Wilson: The Charmin Bears: 2000s: The Cheerios Kid and Sue: Cheerios: 1950s, 1980s, 2012: Cherri O'Leary [4] 1940s: Chef Boyardee: Chef Boyardee canned pastas: based on company founder Hector Boiardi Chester Cheetah: Cheetos snacks: 1986–present: voiced by Pete Stacker ...
Mr. Whipple told his customers: "Please don't squeeze the Charmin!", emphasizing its softness in more than 500 advertisements between 1964 and 1985, [ 6 ] and later returning in 1999–2000. The country song "Don't Squeeze My Sharmon", which was a minor hit for Charlie Walker in 1967, was inspired by the ad campaign for Charmin.
Chervokas went to work in the advertising industry following his graduation from college. In 1964, while working for Benton & Bowles, Chevokas wrote the Mr. Whipple commercial and created the character's iconic plea to grocery shoppers, "Please don't squeeze the Charmin." [1] The commercial proved a massive hit with consumers.
Mortimer Leav (July 9, 1916 – September 21, 2005) [1] [2] was an American artist best known as co-creator of the influential comic-book character the Heap, and for his advertising art, which included some of the earliest TV commercial storyboards – among them, for Procter & Gamble's venerable Charmin bathroom-tissue character, the grocer Mr. Whipple.
The coveted title of Miss and Mr. Golden Globes dates back to 1963 when Donna Douglas and Eva Six shared the honor. The tradition of the role going to a celebrity kid, however, didn’t start ...
Wilson is also widely recognized for his role in a series of TV commercials as a grocery store employee "Mr. Whipple", famously encouraging people not to "Squeeze the Charmin". Wilson appeared as various characters in a total of 18 episodes of "Bewitched" between 1965 and 1972.