Joe Lara, who portrayed Tarzan in the early 1990s television series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures, was killed in a plane crash near Nashville on Saturday. In a private plane crash, the 58-year-old actor was one of seven persons died. Gwen Shamblin Lara, his wife, was also killed in the crash, along with five other people.
In a statement to the Associated Press, the Federal Aviation Administration said the Cessna C501 plane was flying from nearby Smyrna Rutherford County Airport to Palm Beach International Airport when it crashed Saturday morning. Meanwhile, police are said to have withheld the plane's registration information. The plane was on its way to Florida's Palm Beach International Airport.
Gwen Lara, Lara's wife and a diet guru, launched the faith-based Weigh Down Workshop and the Remnant Fellowship Church in 1999. They tied the knot in 2018.