Richard Henzel
Richard Henzel is a Chicago-based stage, film, TV, and voice-over actor.
He is best known as one of the two DJ voices on the clock radio in the movie Groundhog Day. Notable stage roles include Grandpa in the world premiere of The Magic Victrola, at the Chicago Lyric Opera and the world premiere of The Christians by Lucas Hnath and directed by Les Waters. He played Norman in On Golden Pond at Jeff Daniels' Purple Rose Theatre in Chelsea, Michigan; George Bernard Shaw in Dear Liar, Verner/Hugo in Noel Coward In Two Keys, and Mark Twain In Person, all for Shaw Chicago Theatre; Henri in Heroes at The Stormfield Theatre in Lansing, MI, directed by Kristine Thatcher and also starring Gary Houston and Richard Marlatt; Mark Van Doren in Night And Her Stars for The Gift Theatre, directed by Michael Patrick Thornton; and Boss Finley in Sweet Bird of Youth at The Artistic Home Theatre directed by Dale Calandra.
Also among his credits is his one-man stage show Mark Twain In Person in which he has appeared over a thousand times since 1967, in forty states, Canada, Great Britain, on the Mississippi River aboard the Steamboat Delta Queen, and aboard the Royal Viking Sea on a cruise that ran from New York City to Montreal and back in 1985.Awards
- 1978 Joseph Jefferson Award Nomination for Best Actor in a Principal Role
- 1988 Chicago Emmy Award Nomination for Best New Work, Mark Twain's Carnival of Crime, as Mark Twain
- 1989 CINE Award for How I Got into the Literary Profession, as Mark Twain
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- accompanied by Jonathan Menchin, in a scene from "Return of the Hip Messiah" by Charles Pike, at Second City Skybox Theatre, Chicago 1999
- accompanied by Jonathan Menchin, in a scene from "Return of the Hip Messiah" by Charles Pike, at Second City Skybox Theatre, Chicago 1999
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