Joe Lara

Acting

Joe Lara

Born 1962-10-02 · San Diego, California, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Joseph Lara (October 2, 1962 – May 29, 2021) was an American actor, martial artist, and musician, known for the role of Tarzan in the American TV series Tarzan: The Epic Adventures.

Acting credits

Operation Delta Force poster
3.8

A team of military experts and scientists go after a terrorist group that has seized a deadly virus and is threatening to release it.

Operation Delta Force

1997

Armstrong poster
4.7

The Cold War has just heated up! CIA Agent Bob Taylor (Charles Napier) arrives in Moscow with his new wife Susan (Kimberley Kates) with a highly secret video tape of Russian missiles leaving an unknown base near Moscow under the cover of darkness. Are these missiles destined to be aimed at the US or are they being smuggled to a terrorist organisation. The Americans need to know where these missiles are going, the only person who can help them discover their destination is Armstrong (Frank Zagarino) an ex buddy of Bob who now trains an elite Russian anti-terrorist squad under the command of Colonel Zukov (Richard Lynch). Zukov is from the old guard, corrupt, ruthless, and will stop at nothing to gain control.

Armstrong

1998

American Cyborg: Steel Warrior poster
5.2

After the nuclear war people are sterile and ruled by the artifical intelligences they created in this violent world. The only woman who was able to give life to a child has to take the child through the dangerous city to the ship to save it. She is followed by an immortal killer robot through all the dangers, and only one guy tries to help her survive and protect her from the killing machine.

American Cyborg: Steel Warrior

1993

Operation Delta Force 4: Deep Fault poster
4.0

When a group of seismologists are taken prison, the forces that be know that there is only one team of rescuers to turn to--the highly elite Delta Force. Upon beginning this difficult mission to track down and save the hostages, the men on the Force are met with several surprises--surprises that lead them to think this may be one mission they cannot get out of.

Operation Delta Force 4: Deep Fault

1999

Death Game poster
4.3

A young black man is a growing basketball star in his school. The Mob decides to initiate him and manage him. He likes the presents, money and girls, but his coach does not. When things go too far, only his coach can do what must be done.

Death Game

2001

Hologram Man poster
4.1

Five years after the mad terrorist Slash Galagher was sentenced to holographic stasis, he is given a parole hearing. But an equipment failure engineered by his cronies transforms the criminal into a living hologram with god-like powers. Now, stopping him is up to Kurt Decoda, the man who as a police rookie was responsible for arresting Galagher.

Hologram Man

1995

Gunsmoke: The Last Apache poster
7.0

James Arness rides again as Matt Dillon, the US Marshal he made popular in the 1955-75 TV series. In this movie he goes after a renegade Apache named Wolf who has taken his daughter captive. As a bargaining chip, Dillon helps two sons of Apache chief Geronimo out of the fort stockade and offers them in trade. Dillon is aided by an Army scout, Chalk Brighton.

Gunsmoke: The Last Apache

1990

Very Mean Men poster
5.3

A bartender wants rid of an obnoxious drunk but not until the drunk has left a decent tip. So the bartender tells the story of two mobster families, the Minetti's who work out of an Italian restaurant in the East San Fernando Valley, and the Mulroney's who work out of an Irish pub in the West San Fernando Valley. Mob war breaks out when one of the Minetti "boys" stiffs Big Paddy's daughter on her tip. We soon see why these hoods are called very mean men

Very Mean Men

2000

Steel Frontier poster
4.8

Set in a post-nuclear-holocaust future, this sci-fi western takes place in the frontier city of New Hope, the only place around with a working oil refinery. Ever since a megalomaniac general and his followers took over the place, life has been miserable. Then a stranger, a man-of-few-words, comes to town. A quick-drawing gunslinger, he first joins the conquerors. As time passes, however, it rapidly becomes apparent that he really sides with the townsfolk, and when the time is right, he leads them into a violent uprising.

Steel Frontier

1995

Tarzan in Manhattan poster
4.0

Tarzan goes to New York to rescue the chimp Cheetah, who has been captured by an evil animal experimenter. There, he teams up with Jane, a cab driver and daughter of an ex-cop private eye, who help Tarzan free Cheetah and his friends.

Tarzan in Manhattan

1989

Tarzan: The Epic Adventures poster
6.6

Tarzan has a tough encounter with arms dealer Nikolai who then kidnaps Colette and wants to sell her in Africa. Tarzan gets captured, escapes and follows Nikolai who has teamed up with netherworld queen Mara and her flesh eaters. Serves as the pilot to the Tarzan: The Epic Adventures television series.

Tarzan: The Epic Adventures

1996

Sunset Heat poster
4.1

A former drug-dealer photojournalist returns to Los Angeles and helps friends terrorized by his ex-partner.

Sunset Heat

1992

Doomsdayer poster
4.7

While seconds tick away, the faith of the world rests in one man his hands

Doomsdayer

2001

Lima: Breaking the Silence poster
4.8

An intense drama based on the true story of Peruvian rebels who in 1997 kidnapped several hundred high-ranking diplomats and government officials in an attempt to force the release of 400 political prisoners.

Lima: Breaking the Silence

1999

The Presence poster
4.2

After their plane crashes in the Pacific Ocean after a storm a group of people scramble to a tropical island. At first the place seems home to palm trees and exotic wildlife but on the discovery of a disused military base they find out the island poses a severe threat to them

The Presence

1992

Live Wire: Human Timebomb poster
5.4

A computer chip turns an FBI agent into a lethal weapon.

Live Wire: Human Timebomb

1996

Final Equinox poster
10.0

The mob and the government race to be the first to recover a stolen alien artifact with unparalleled powers.

Final Equinox

1995

Warhead poster
3.9

Terrorists seize an American nuclear missile site and threaten to launch the missiles at Washington unless the President resigns immediately and $1 billion is placed in a Swiss account in 8 hours.

Warhead

1996

Night Wars poster
4.8

Two Vietnam Veterans have realistic nightmares about the war. So real are these nightmares that they start getting injured in them, and bringing things back that they had in the dream. They then buy weapons and go in to try and get one of their friends out that originally died in a POW camp during the Vietnam war. This is made harder by a traitor from the US Military Corps.

Night Wars

1988

No artwork available
5.5

Two vacationing couples lend assistance to an injured man. This good deed leads them into their worst nightmare.

Dead Man's Run

2001

Strike Zone poster
7.0

In Sofia, Bulgaria, Lt. Col. John Hart, Lt. Rick Burns and an elite team of Navy SEALS are on a mission to stop the transfer of missile guidance technology to a Mid-Eastern country. The system's computer control is hidden in a fake archaeological site - the Lost City of Rajkumar.

Strike Zone

2000

Starfire Mutiny poster
3.4

In future, the ozone layer is gone and Earth is a wasteland. Most survivors are on a space station, waiting for a chance to replenish the ozone, somehow. A dangerous man tries to take over the station, but its commander fights back.

Starfire Mutiny

2002

Behind the camera