Joe Lara, the star of TV's Tarzan: The Epic Adventures, died Saturday with his wife and five others in the crash of a small jet near Nashville, authorities said. He was 58. A Cessna C501 plunged into Percy Priest Lake near Smyrna, Tennessee, after taking off from Smyrna Rutherford County Airport at about 11 a.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement.
Lara played Tarzan in the 1989 television movie Tarzan in Manhattan . He later starred in the television series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures, which ran from 1996-1997.