Phillip Bartlett was an American voice actor best known as the voice of Mewtwo

Mewtwo

is a fictional creature in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon media franchise. Created by Ken Sugimori, it first appeared in the video games Pokémon Red and Blue and their sequels, and later appeared in various merchandise, spinoff titles, as well as animation adaptations of the franchise...

 in Pokémon: The First Movie

Pokémon: The First Movie

Pokémon: The First Movie, originally released as , is a 1998 Japanese animated film directed by Kunihiko Yuyama, the chief director of the Pokémon television series. It is the first theatrical release in the Pokémon franchise...

. He was commonly misidentified as Rodger Parsons, although they are two separate people with the same name.

Bartlett was born and raised in Shakopee, Minnesota

Shakopee, Minnesota

Shakopee is a city southwest of downtown Minneapolis in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Scott County. Located on the south bank bend of the Minnesota River, Shakopee and nearby suburbs comprise the southwest portion of Minneapolis-Saint Paul, the thirteenth largest...

, the son of Sheila and Calvin Bartlett. He attended Shakope High School and later went on to the University of Minnesota, where he was a member of psychology and minored in architecture.

On August 9, 2001, Bartlett died on the medical table when surgeons were fixing the aorta

Aorta

The aorta is the largest artery in the body, originating from the left ventricle of the heart and extending down to the abdomen, where it branches off into two smaller arteries...

 (it had a rip in his heart) at 1:15 AM, inside a Cleveland hospital.

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