Charlie Chaplin (right) and his wife Oona O’Neill ... “We got a phone call from the police who said, look, somebody has dug up the grave,” he said. “The coffin has gone.

QUESTION Was Charlie Chaplin's grave once robbed? Yes, his coffin was stolen and held for ransom. In 1952 Charlie Chaplin paid a visit to Britain only to find that the U.S. attorney general had ...

When the world said goodbye to Charlie Chaplin in December 1977 ... Corsier-sur-Vevey had initially raised the alarm that Chaplin's grave was empty. Tyre marks showed how they had lifted the ...

Not long after Chaplin’s death, the 24-year-old Roman Wardas was reading about graverobbers in the newspaper when he had a bright idea: he decided to steal Charlie Chaplin’s corpse in order to ...

It was then, mid nugget bite, when I heard a pre-pubescent male voice saying: “Jaysus lads, Charlie Chaplin’s back from the grave.” One of his friends followed it up with a classic Chaplin walk.

Long before FW Murnau's head went for a little walk without his body, the most celebrated cinematic corpse-napping was the theft of Charlie Chaplin's remains from his Swiss grave.