On 1 March 1978, Charlie Chaplin’s coffin disappeared. The filmmaker had been buried two months prior following his death on Christmas Day in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland. (Chaplin, a native of London, moved to Switzerland with his wife and their children in 1953.)
Chaplin was 88 years old at the time of his death, and the celebrated director behind silent films such as The Kid, The Gold Rush, and City Lights, and talkies (as films containing spoken lines were once called) such as Modern Times, The Great Dictator, and Monsieur Verdoux.
