Richard Henzel

Richard Henzel (born June 15, 1949) is a Chicago-based stage, film, TV, and voice-over actor. Voice Samples

He is best known as one of the two DJ voices on the clock radio in the movie "Groundhog Day". Richard Henzel at the Internet Movie Database He appeared in Steppenwolf Theater production Of Mice and Men,^[1] and the South Florida production of The Count.^[2]

Also among his credits is his one man stage show "Mark Twain In Person" in which he has been appearing since 1967 in forty states, Canada, Great Britain, on the Mississippi River aboard the Steamboat Delta Queen, and aboard the Royal Viking Sea in a cruise that ran from New York to Montreal and back in 1985.^[3] His self-published audiobooks Pudd'nhead Wilson, Those Extraordinary Twins, A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and "The Best of Mark Twain In Person" are sold on audible.com and numerous other download sites. He was with Hal Holbrook at a Mark Twain conference, August 2009.^[4]

Awards

• 1978 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role, nomination^[5]

Video

• Richard Henzel as Mark Twain: "On Slavery" filmed at the Mark Twain Home in Hartford, CT 1988
• Richard Henzel as Mark Twain: "The Amazon" filmed at the Mark Twain Home in Hartford, CT 1988
• Richard Henzel as Mark Twain: "A Steamboatman" filmed at the Mark Twain Home in Hartford, CT 1988
• Richard Henzel recreates Buckley's "Murder" monologue accompanied by Jonathan Menchin, in a scene from "Return of the Hip Messiah" by Charles Pike, at Second City Skybox Theatre, Chicago 1999
• Richard Henzel recreates Buckley's "The Nazz" monologue accompanied by Jonathan Menchin, in a scene from "Return of the Hip Messiah" by Charles Pike, at Second City Skybox Theatre, Chicago 1999

Criticism

• "Randy Newman's Faust", Center Stage, May 05, 2001

References

External links

• Actor's website