{{Short description|American voice actor, screenwriter and cartoonist}} {{BLP sources|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Harry S. Robins | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = Harry Scifres Robins | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1950|11|28}} | birth_place = Lebanon, Indiana, U.S.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Harry Robins (b. 1950) |url=https://www.comics.org/creator/5329/ |access-date=2023-11-24 |website=Grand Comics Database}}</ref> | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (DEATH date then BIRTH date) --> | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Actor, voice actor | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}
'''Harry Scifres Robins''' (born November 28, 1950) is an American voice actor, screenwriter and cartoonist.<ref name="birthday">{{cite web|url=http://www.redroom.com/author/hal-robins|title=Hal Robins|website=redroom.com|accessdate=October 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011052852/http://www.redroom.com/author/hal-robins|archive-date=October 11, 2008}}</ref> He is best known for his role as Isaac Kleiner in the ''Half-Life'' series and Tinker in ''Dota 2''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Harry S. Robins|publisher=Giant Bomb|url=https://www.giantbomb.com/harry-s-robins/3040-4450/}}</ref> Robins is also a member of the Church of the SubGenius, holding the official title of "Master of Church Secrets", and has written and drawn several comic books for them. He also voiced the narrator in ''Arise! The SubGenius Video'' and made an appearance in the 1999 documentary film ''Grass''.
==Radio== He can be heard on KPFA on a show called 'Puzzling Evidence' that started back in 1982. His description of the radio show: :"Deranged “edits” segue into a cascade of echoing glossolaliac madness, the voicing of lyric ruminations from the free-falling brains of disintegrating personalities. And some people, demented individuals, obsessively record every word and squealing sound effect. Of course, you may just hate it."<ref>{{cite web|title=Puzzling Evidence|publisher=Laughing Squid|url=https://laughingsquid.com/puzzling-evidence/}}</ref>
==Film and television== Robins co-wrote the film ''Kamillions'' with director Mike B. Anderson, in addition to playing Nathan, the Wingate family patriarch and benevolent mad scientist.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kamillions (1990) - Full Cast & Crew|publisher=IMDb|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102185/fullcredits/}}</ref>
He appeared on a television show, ''The Conspiracy Zone,'' for two seasons in 2002, on now-defunct TNN, in which he was the announcer and made several on-camera appearances. He also appeared as one of several underground comic experts in the documentary film, ''God's Cartoonist: The Comic Crusade of Jack Chick.''
He voiced the trailer for the 2015 video game ''Plague Inc: Evolved''.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSat_gLDXPc |title=Plague Inc: Evolved Official Launch Trailer |date=2014-02-20 |last=Ndemic Creations |access-date=2024-06-03 |via=YouTube}}</ref>
==Literature and comic books==
Robins illustrated Marc Laidlaw's 1996 novel ''The 37th Mandala''. Robins would again collaborate with Marc Laidlaw on the Half-Life series, for which Laidlaw was the lead writer.
Robins has been a comic book artist and cartoonist, appearing in R. Crumb's ''Weirdo'' magazine and various comic books, including ''Legal Action Comics II'' and ''Alien Apocalypse 2006''. Many of his horror comics were anthologized in ''Grave Yarns''. He also wrote and illustrated ''The Meaning of Lost and Mismatched Socks'' published by Frog, Ltd. (a division of North Atlantic Books), which also published his book ''Dinosaur Alphabet.'' His work also appears in popular trading card sets, including ''Dinosaurs Attack'' by Topps, and ''Tune In For Terror'' from Monsterwax Trading Cards.
==The Church of the SubGenius== As Dr. Howland Owll, Robins contributed to ''The Book of the SubGenius'' and ''Revelation X: the "Bob" Apocryphon.'' His short story "The Smoker from the Shadows" appears in the anthology ''Three-Fisted Tales of "Bob".'' He also contributed to the SubGenius comic book, ''"Bob's" Favorite Comics'' (a rarity, of which most copies were burned in a warehouse fire). In addition, Robins' work appears in the 2006 SubGenius book, ''Psychlopaedia of Slack: The Bobliographon''.
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0654516}} * [https://askdrhalshow.com/ Ask Dr. Hal] * [https://archive.today/20121203171701/http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=167120484239&ref=mf Elect Harry S. Robins for Congress 2010] * [http://laughingsquid.com/puzzling-evidence/ Laughingsquid.com] *{{YouTube|flUf1NuJcb0|The VŌC Podcast // Harry S. Robins Interview (The voice of Dr. Kleiner, Tinker, Scientists)}} {{Authority control}}
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