Jordi Estadella Gracia (11 November 1948 – 30 April 2010) was a Spanish voice actor, journalist, radio and television host and film dubber. Estadella's career spanned more than 40 years.^[1] He was best known to Spaniards as the host of the game show, Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez, from 1991 until 1993.^[1]

Estadella began his career in 1970 at Radio Juventud de Barcelona (Barcelona Youth Radio).^[1] He began working as a voice actor and dubber beginning in 1977,^[2] providing in the Spanish and Catalan voices of dozens of actors and characters in film, including Groucho Marx, Richard Guilliland, Jerry Lewis and Luc Durand in Inspector Gadget.^[1][3]

Estadella made his television debut in 1985 as host of the TV3 talk show, Piano Bar.^[1] In 1990, he began presenting the Televisión Española show, No te rías, que es peor.^[1] Estadella further increased his television presence nationwide in 1991 as host of the popular game show, Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez, which he continued to host until 1993.^[1] The role made Estadella a household name throughout Spain.^[1]

He spent much of the next two decades working with either the Telecinco television station or the Catalan channel, TV3.^[1] In his later years, Estadella returned to radio, hosting several gastronomical shows, including De boca en boca on COM Radio de Barcelona.^[1] He was also the host of the Spanish version of Greed.

Jordi Estadella died at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona at 4 a.m. on 30 April 2010 at the age of 61, after suffering from liver cancer.^[1][2][3]

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