Steve Mensch, President and General Operations Manager of Tyler Perry Studios, died on Friday (Dec. 6) at age 62. He was killed in a plane crash in Florida.

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,

Tyler Perry has paid tribute to Steve Mensch, president and general manager of operations at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, after Mensch died this weekend in a small plane crash.