Walter Edward Whitehead (20 May 1908 – 16 April 1978), also known as Commander Whitehead, was an advertisement representative of SchweppesTonic Water, playing himself as a suave and cosmopolitan man of taste and distinction in a widely-distributed advertising campaign of the 1950s and 1960s. He was also a successful executive, being head of Schweppes' American operations.
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