<b>Harry S. Robins</b> (born November 28, 1950), known as "Hal", is an American voice actor and screenwriter. Robins is best known for his vocal work in the <i>Half-Life</i> series of computer games<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"></sup>and as the voice of Tinker in <i>Dota 2</i>. He is also a prominent member of the <a title="Church of the SubGenius" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius">Church of the SubGenius</a> as Dr. Howland Owll. In that persona he voiced the narrator in <strong><i>Arise! The SubGenius Video</i></strong> and made brief appearances in <i>Grass</i>. His official title within the church is "Master of Church Secrets".
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He can be heard on KPFA on a show called 'Puzzling Evidence' that started back in 1982. His description of the radio show:
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 	<dd>"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."</dd>
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Robins co-wrote the film <i><a title="Kamillions" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamillions">Kamillions</a></i> with director <a title="Mike B. Anderson" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_B._Anderson">Mike B. Anderson</a>, in addition to playing Nathan, the Wingate family patriarch and benevolent mad scientist.

He appeared on a television show, <i><a title="The Conspiracy Zone" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conspiracy_Zone">The Conspiracy Zone</a>,</i> 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, <i>God's Cartoonist: The Comic Crusade of <a title="Jack Chick" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Chick">Jack Chick</a>.</i>
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Robins has been a comic book artist and cartoonist, appearing in <a title="Robert Crumb" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Crumb">R. Crumb</a>'s <i><a class="mw-redirect" title="Weirdo (magazine)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weirdo_(magazine)">Weirdo</a></i> magazine and various comic books, including <i>Legal Action Comics II</i> and <i>Alien Apocalypse 2006</i>. Many of his horror comics were anthologized in <i>Grave Yarns</i>. He also wrote and illustrated <i><a title="Missing sock" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_sock">The Meaning of Lost and Mismatched Socks</a></i> published by Frog, Ltd. (a division of North Atlantic Books), which also published his book <i>Dinosaur Alphabet.</i> His work also appears in popular trading card sets, including <i>Dinosaurs Attack</i> by Topps, and <i>Tune In For Terror</i> from <a title="Monsterwax" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsterwax">Monsterwax Trading Cards</a>.
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As Dr. Howland Owll, Robins contributed to <i><a class="mw-redirect" title="The Book of the SubGenius" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_the_SubGenius">The Book of the SubGenius</a></i> and <i>Revelation X: the "Bob" Apocryphon.</i> His short story "The Smoker from the Shadows" appears in the anthology <i>Three-Fisted Tales of "Bob".</i> He also contributed to the SubGenius comic book, <i>"Bob's" Favorite Comics</i> (a rarity, of which most copies were burned in a warehouse fire). In addition, Robins' work appears in the 2006 SubGenius book, <strong><i>Psychlopaedia of Slack: The Bobliographon</i>.</strong>