The iconic role of Tarzan that Joe Lara played in the TV series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures earned him much fame.
His best-known role was that of Tarzan in the American television series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures, which he starred in for many years until it was canceled in 2003. He was among eight people presumed dead after a plane crashed in a lake near Nashville city on Saturday.
The first appearance of Joe in a movie was as an unnamed American soldier in 1988’s Night Wars. In the years that followed, he appeared in several films such as Day War in 1991 and House of God in 2001. Tarzan in Manhattan was a TV movie that the actor had won in 1989 after passing the audition. A leading role was offered to him.
Danger Island and The Last Apache were his two more Gunsmoke films after Tarzan in Manhattan. He returned as Tarzan in the show Tarzan: The Epic Adventures in 1996. Joe was also famous for having appeared in many actioners like Steel Frontier, Armstrong, and Warhead. In 2002, Joe quit acting to pursue a career in his second love, country music.
Joe Lara tied the knot with author Gwen Shamblin in 2018. The couple is survived by two children from Gwen’s first marriage.
In a light aircraft crash near Smyrna on Saturday, the 58-year-old was among seven people believed dead.
Gwen Shamblin Lara, a dietician and a founder of a weight-loss church, was also killed.
According to the rescue workers, wreckage and human remains were found at the crash site.
After starring in Tarzan in Manhattan in 1989, Mr Lara reprised the role in the follow-up series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures.
In 2002, he left acting for a country music career.
His wife’s organization for weight loss, Weigh Down Ministries, was organized in 1986.
According to her website, she authored a faith-based weight-loss book encouraging people to “turn away from the love of food and toward the love of God” and founded the Remnant Fellowship Church in Brentwood in 1999.
Approximately thirty minutes after taking off from Smyrna airport on Saturday, a Cessna C501 plane carrying seven people went down just south of Palm Beach, Florida, at about 11:00 local time (17:00 GMT) on Saturday.
About 12 miles (19km) south of Nashville, the small jet went down in Percy Priest Lake.
