Kenneth More - Lose One, Win One?

As you know, I sometimes muse about issues outside of music, especially those laced with strange coincidence or pure irony.
In this case the career of Kenneth More, a British actor who was eminent but not outrageously famous over a generation ago.
What passed through my mind the other day was the interesting, if not somewhat curious connective tissue that bound two of his films.
The first; titled " A Night to Remember", done, I believe, in 1958, was his role as an officer on the ill-fated Titanic tragedy of 1912, which, of course, traced the sinking of the giant ocean liner on its maiden voyage.
The second; titled "Sink the Bismarck", produced in 1960, had the actor playing the role of one of the British naval officers involved in the sinking of the most powerful battleship in Hitler's navy in 1941. By the way, although I am not a movie-goer, I did see both films, which were well-done, both in quality of entertainment and historical context.
The question which for a moment loomed in front of me - was it merely coincidence that Kenneth More appeared in both sinking sagas, or did he specifically ask to be in both movies due to his interest in being, perhaps, one of few actors involved in two historical sinking sagas; once as a loser (went down with the Titanic), then as a winner ( a contributor to the sinking of the Bismarck)?
Incidentally, be assured that when More passed away, it was not in his bathtub.
Ah, Trivia... I promise to return to a more substantive issue next time.