“OK, campers, rise and shine, and don’t forget your booties because it’s COOOLD out there today!”

If you’ve seen the movie “Groundhog Day,” you should remember this line because you hear that DJ’s voice about five times throughout. It’s in the pivotal scene, or scenes, rather, where Bill Murray’s character, Phil, wakes to find that yesterday is today.

The voice is that of Chicago-based actor Richard Henzel.

“I grew up in the wilds of Ohio with lots of fields and trees and forests as far as the eye could see,” Henzel said. “I would often wander through the fields and sing loudly and imagine that a big Cadillac would stop and I would be discovered, like ‘The Little Rascals.’ They didn’t get discovered in the show, but you knew they were in a movie. I really connected to ‘The Little Rascals.’”

Henzel joked that like most actors, he was inspired by Liberace. Joking aside, Henzel recalls ‘all the moms and all the neighbor ladies’ running to the TV when Liberace would come on the screen.

“I thought, ‘If I can make my hair do that, and I smile like that, and play the piano like that, I could really make all the girls go wild,’” Henzel said.

In 1976, Henzel and his wife, Jennie, came to Chicago by way of Cincinnati.

“It was while I was in ‘Plaza Suite’ at a Cincinnati dinner theater with TV legend Imogene Coca,” Henzel said. “She said, ‘You and Jennie should move to Chicago. You’d both love it there.’ She was right. My next day off, I drove to Chicago, and in one day booked a commercial, got an agent and found an apartment.

“A few weeks later, when my show closed, we moved there. Jennie got a great job downtown, and I found work in theater, TV and film.”

The two since have moved to Oak Park, where they still reside today.

Henzel actually made it to Woodstock much earlier than the 1992 “Groundhog Day” filming. He is well-known for his one-man stage show, “Mark Twain in Person,” which he performed at the Woodstock Opera House in 1978. He has been performing the show since 1968, inspired by Hal Holbrook’s one-man Twain show that he saw on TV.

Although his voice was in “Groundhog Day,” Henzel never actually was on set in Woodstock. Instead, he recorded his part in a studio in downtown Chicago. Henzel knew “Groundhog Day” director Harold Ramis from his Second City days, and Henzel said Ramis was calling in everyone he knew from classes to come in for the movie.

“We were called toward the end of shooting,” Henzel said. “We went to a studio downtown and laid a few tracks down. It took all of about 20 minutes. We did a few takes and read some stuff off some paper. We didn’t really even know why. We walked out of there thinking, ‘That’s too bad.’”

It wasn’t until Henzel and the other DJ voice, Rob Riley, were at a showing of the film at Chicago’s Piper’s Alley theater that they found it was used in the movie. He didn’t know it then that the scene would get him invited back to Woodstock for years to come, a consistent face at the yearly prognostication and Groundhog Days festivities.

“Most years I stand there and watch, and I’ll do my bit,” Henzel said. “I’m usually out there freezing my butt off on the bandstand. It’s a great time.”