# Joe Lara - Tarzen from the 1990's dies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 30, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-lara-tarzen-from-the-1990s-dies/943250 "2021-05-30T23:23:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-lara-tarzen-from-the-1990s-dies/943250/1 "2021-05-30T23:23:52Z")
A lot of guys with good abs rocked the Tarzan loincloth. I watched a few of the Tarzan episodes in the 90’s. IIRC it was on the same channel as Xena and Hercules. A plane crash in Tennessee killed seven church members. Laura’s wife Gwen, founded the church. RIP Joe Lara > **[Joe Lara Dies: ‘Tarzan: The Epic Adventures’ Star Dies In Plane Crash With...](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/joe-lara-dies-tarzan-epic-162735746.html)** > > Joe Lara, who played Tarzan in the early 1990s television series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures, died Saturday in a plane crash near Nashville. He was 58 years old and was one of seven people killed in the private jet accident along with his wife, Gwen... ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-lara-tarzen-from-the-1990s-dies/943250/2 "2021-05-31T14:43:21Z")
Seem like nice people. > **[Gwen Shamblin Lara, a Diet Guru Who Led a Christian Cult, Died in a Plane Crash](https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021/05/31/gwen-shamblin-lara-a-diet-guru-who-led-a-christian-cult-died-in-a-plane-crash/)** > > What a sad legacy she leaves behind. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-lara-tarzen-from-the-1990s-dies/943250/3 "2021-05-31T14:59:56Z")
I knew there was a Hercules on TV in the 90’s, I did not know there was a Tarzan. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-lara-tarzen-from-the-1990s-dies/943250/4 "2021-05-31T15:02:01Z")
Yeah, I don’t remember it, either. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-lara-tarzen-from-the-1990s-dies/943250/5 "2021-05-31T15:37:25Z")
He also was the lead in a movie called Hologram Man, a truly terrible and hilarious movie about a man whose soul is put into a hologram. It’s a great bad movie. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2021, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-lara-tarzen-from-the-1990s-dies/943250/6 "2021-05-31T16:55:31Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I knew there was a Hercules on TV in the 90’s, I did not know there was a Tarzan. There used to be a new Tarzan nearly every decade. The show seemed to attract a new audience with every generation. IIRC The 90’s Tarzan was a modern Eco Warrior. He traveled and took up various wildlife conservation issues. I only watched it occasionally when channel surfing.