What Famous TV Commercial Actors Get Paid

Mr. Whipple

Dick Wilson played a nosy store clerk who hated when his patrons squeezed his Charmin brand toilet paper. That's literally the extent of the character—he's just a dude who hates when people roughhouse his TP. Dick Wilson was astonished that this role was so simple, and he stuck to it for over 500 commercials worth of time. 

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