Richard Henzel (born June 15, 1949) 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". He appeared in Steppenwolf Theater production Of Mice and Men, and the South Florida Premiere production of The Count by Roger Hedden. More recently, 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 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.
He was nominated for a 1978 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actor in a Principal Role in a Play for "Mark Twain in Person" at the Richard Henzel and Dean Hill Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.