[1] While living in London, Previn, in the 1970s, served as the English Representative and Production Executive for American International Pictures.
As production executive As producer As director As editor Steve's father, Jack Previn (Jacob Priwin; 1885–1963), had been an attorney and judge in Germany before fleeing from the Nazis to the United States.
Steve Previn (then known as Wolf Priwin) steamed aboard the SS Hamburg from Hamburg, Germany to New York from January 16, 1936, to January 24, 1936, to join a family friend in New York, Rudolph Polk (1895–1957), a concert violinist who, at the time, lived at 35 West 81st Street in Manhattan.
Jacob Priwin listed his cousin, Leo Previn (1884–1954) (who lived on the Upper West Side in Manhattan), as his U.S.
[2] Charlotte, Andreas, and Leonore then sailed from New York to Los Angeles from November 26, 1938, to December 11, 1938, aboard the SS City of Newport News.