Richard Henzel (born June 15, 1949) is aChicago-based stage, film, TV, andvoice-overactor.

He is best known as the voice of Ernie Keebler, the Keebler Elf (since 2016), and as one of the twoDJ voices heard on the clock radio in the movieGroundhog Day. Notable stage roles include G. Bernard Shaw in the world premiere ofShaw Vs. Tunney, Grandpa in the world premiere ofThe Magic Victrola at theChicago Lyric Opera and the world premiere ofThe Christians byLucas Hnath and directed byLes Waters atActors Theatre of Louisville. He played Norman inOn Golden Pond atJeff Daniels' Purple Rose Theatre inChelsea, Michigan; George Bernard Shaw inDear Liar, Verner/Hugo inNoel Coward In Two Keys, andMark Twain In Person, all for Shaw Chicago Theatre; Henri inHeroes at The Stormfield Theatre in Lansing, MI, directed by Kristine Thatcher and also starring Gary Houston and Richard Marlatt; Mark Van Doren inNight And Her Stars for The Gift Theatre, directed by Michael Patrick Thornton; and Boss Finley inSweet Bird of Youth at The Artistic Home Theatre directed by Dale Calandra.

Also among his credits is his one-man stage showMark Twain In Person in which he has appeared over a thousand times since 1967, in forty states,Canada,Wales, on theMississippi River aboard theSteamboat Delta Queen, and for Royal Viking Sea's "Theatre At Sea" cruise that sailed fromNew York City toMontreal in 1985.

• 1978 Joseph Jefferson Award Nomination for Best Actor in a Principal Role^[1]
• 1988 Chicago Emmy Award Nomination for Best New Work,Mark Twain's Carnival of Crime, as Mark Twain
• 1989 CINE Award forHow I Got into the Literary Profession, as Mark Twain

• Mark Twain's Book for Bad Boys and Girls, written byR. Kent Rasmussen
• Chapters From My Autobiography
• Pudd'nhead Wilson (unabridged)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (unabridged)
• "The Turning Point In My Life"
• The American Claimant
• A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
• Mark Twain's Views Of Religion
• Roughing It
• The War Prayer
• Those Extraordinary Twins
• The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut
• To the Person Sitting in Darkness
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Extract from Capt. Stormfield's Visit to Heaven
• The Best of Mark Twain In Person Vol. 1
• The Best of Mark Twain In Person Vol. 2
• Is Shakespeare Dead?
• "Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism"
• The Mysterious Stranger
• The Prince and the Pauper
• The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
• What Is Man?
• Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance, Preface and Notes by Richard Henzel.
• Life on the Mississippi
• The Innocents Abroad
• The Death of Jean
• The Private History of a Campaign that Failed

• Actor's website
• Richard Henzel atIMDb

• American male stage actors
• American male film actors
• American male television actors
• American male voice actors
• 1949 births
• Living people

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