Instead, the rugged new Maytag Man will show up in commercials as a ... Cincinatti” took over the Maytag repairman role from Jesse White in 1989 and starred in the company’s commercials ...

Three different actors — Hardy Rawls, Jesse White and Gordon Jump — have played the role. Maytag went in search ... But only one man had what it takes to fill the uniform.

In 1989, Jump replaced Jesse White as the highly recognized spokesman ... from its inception in 1967 until Jump took over. Jump was the Maytag man in television and print ads, on billboards ...

Take the Marlboro man. He’s been in the saddle for 31 years. Starkist’s Charlie the Tuna is 25, and actor Jesse White has been waiting to fix a Maytag washer for almost two decades.

White, the character actor best known as television’s lonely Maytag repairman whose phone never rang, died Wednesday in Los Angeles of a heart attack at age 79. Born Jesse Marc Weidenfeld in ...