TV's Mr. Clean dies at age 92

[ThePhoenix]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_peters

he actor who played muscular "Mr. Clean" in hundreds of dirt-busting television commercials in the late 1950s and early 1960s, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 92, his family said.

House Peters Jr.'s bald-head, hoop earring and brawny arms was the original public face of Proctor & Gamble's household cleaners with the jingle "Mr. Clean, Mr. Clean." He died of pneumonia on Wednesday, his family said.

Born into an acting family, House Peters Jr. started his career in silent movies and later made a name for himself with character parts, often as the muscled villain, in dozens of TV and movie westerns including "Wagon Train", "Gunsmoke" and "The Lone Ranger."

[snappyturtle]

1. Another icon gone....hope he rests in peace. Wish we could see his

type of commercials rather than all the drug ads and announcements to join class action law suits against drug companies. It was a different time.

[Berry Cool]

2. Good Lord, Reuters misspelled "Procter & Gamble."

I would've gotten an F on that story in my journalism newswriting class, just for that.