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.
Joe and Gwen are survived by Gwen's two adult children, Elizabeth Hannah and Michael Shamblin, from her first marriage, as well as a daughter from Joe's prior relationship and several grandkids.
Later that day, Rutherford County Fire Rescue Capt John Ingle issued a statement saying that recovery activities at Percy Priest Lake near Smyrna were still underway. He also mentioned that a half-mile-wide debris field in the lake was being investigated.
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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.
He later starred as Edgar Rice Burroughs in the first-run syndicated series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures, which was filmed in South Africa in 1996-97. He was the one who produced that.
Joe Lara: The Cry of Freedom, his first album, was published in 2009. He played guitar in it.