Actor Joe Lara has died in a plane crash near Nashville. He was 58. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Lara, his wife Gwen Lara and five others perished when a Cessna C501 crashed into a lake after taking off from Smyrna Rutherford County Airport in Tennessee.
Rutherford County Fire Rescue Capt. Joshua Sanders said in a news conference that there were no survivors. Lara was best known for portraying the title role in “Tarzan: The Epic Adventures”, which aired in syndication from 1996 until 1997.
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