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Veteran actor Dick Wilson has died at the age of 91. Wilson, who appeared in TV shows including Hogan's Heroes, passed away at the Motion Picture And Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. He is best known for starring in over 500 television ads for toilet paper Charmin as Mr. Whipple between 1964 and 1985. In a career spanning more than 70 years, Wilson also had role in theatre, movies and on the radio. Wilson is the second Hogan's Heroes star to die this month - actress Sigrid Valdis, who played sexy secretary Hilda on the beloved TV comedy, lost her battle with lung cancer at the age of 72 last week.

Beloved Hogan's Heroes star Sigrid Valdis has died of lung cancer at the age of 72. The sexy blonde played secretary Hilda for five seasons on the classic 1960s TV show and went on to marry the program's star Bob Crane. The couple was wed on the show's set in 1970. Crane was found bludgeoned to death in the couple's Arizona apartment eight years later. Valdis was born Patricia Olson in Bakersfield, California in 1935 and made her mark as a model before becoming an actress. She retired from the profession in the early 1970s when she became a mother.