Dick Wilson

Dick Wilson was a British-American actor who entered show business at fifteen with a part-time job at a radio station in Hamilton, Ontario, and later moved to the United States to work in film and television. Born in Preston, Lancashire, and raised in Canada, he studied at the Ontario College of Art and Design and spent twenty years performing as a comedic acrobatic dancer in vaudeville. He served in the Second World War as a bomber pilot, then settled in California and became an American citizen in 1954. He made numerous appearances on the television series Bewitched, and was best known as Mr. George Whipple, the grocery store manager he played in more than 500 Charmin television commercials. He died in 2007.