Wilfred Tipton

Wilfred Tipton is a behind the scenes character is the Suite Life of Zack and Cody and the sequel series Suite Life on Deck. He is the father of London Tipton and the founder of Tipton Industries. He runs various busnisses such as a hotel in Boston and owns a ship that provides a high school education for students at sea. He is mentioned to have no sense of concince or friends.

Role in the series
Mr. Tipton runs the hotel and various other industries. He only really apears in one episode of the Suite Life On Deck, he is referenced by several mentions from the characters and London is often seen calling him on her phone. He wasn't around much for London's life (namley her childhood), but in the orginal series, he does make an "apearance" at London's birhtday, but was surronded by bodygaurds.

Several crimes he has commited in the series often result in some kind of trouble for the characters, an example would be that he had all the tree cut down on Parrot Island, which resulted in the Parrots leaving the island and London was arrested for being related to him.

His first and only true apearance in the entire series was during the "Twister" storyline, in which after a tornado destroy's much of Kettlecorn, the home to London's best friend Bailey Pickett, Cody decides to call Mr. Tipton to who say's he intends to buy the land and make the area a plastic bag factory. London sides with her father, but after seeing her friends are angry at her, London turns agianst her father blackmailing him unless he leaves the Pickett family alone. He leaves and admits he is impressed by London's blackmail.