An earlier version of this obituary misspelled the title of one of Tyler Perry’s films. It is “Boo! A Madea Halloween,” not “Boo! A Medea Halloween.” Steve Mensch, a film executive in Georgia who pushed for state policies to support the industry and who was the president of Tyler Perry Studios,

The president of Atlanta-based Tyler Perry Studios died Friday night when the small plane he was piloting crashed on Florida's Gulf Coast. The studio confirmed on Saturday that Steve Mensch, its 62-year-old president and general manager, had died.

Members of the Fort McPherson Local Redevelopment Authority say Steve Mensch, the late president of Tyler Perry Studios, was instrumental in developing hundreds of acres of the former army base in southwest Atlanta.