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.

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,

Mensch has been the head of Tyler Perry Studios since 2016, overseeing the day-to-day operations at Tyler's 300-acre studio in Atlanta.

Mensch was saluted as a strong advocate of the film tax credit that helped make Georgia popular with film studios.

ATLANTA — The president of Atlanta-based Tyler Perry Studios died Friday night when the small plane he was piloting crashed in Citrus County. The studio confirmed on Saturday that Steve Mensch, its 62-year-old president and general manager, had died.

Tyler Perry Studios President Steve Mensch died Friday as the sole occupant of a single-engine plane that crashed in the western Florida town of Homosassa.

Steve Mensch, the president and general manager of studio operations at Tyler Perry Studios, died in a plane crash Friday night, according to officials.

Steve Mensch, the president of Tyler Perry Studios, was killed in a plane crash at age 62. The Georgia-based film executive was piloting a small plane when it crashed on Friday, Dec. 6, at about 8 p.m. in Homosassa, Florida. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, it was a single-engine Vans RV12 and only Mensch was on board.

Mensch was the pilot of a single-seater plane that crashed on a road in Homosassa, Florida, the report said. Homosassa is about 75 miles north of Tampa. The Florida Highway Patrol said the crash happened on West White Dogwood Drive near the intersection of US 98, which is connected to US 19 in Homosassa.