![Stop, the story isn't quite over yet! Charlie Chaplin in front of his house in Corsier-sur-Vevey, circa 1965.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/chaplin-DIG-14522_LM-115120.1-300x225.jpg)
When Chaplin's corpse was kidnapped
Celebrated actor-director Charlie Chaplin died in 1977 and was buried in the cemetery at Corsier-sur-Vevey. But then, grave robbers dug up his body and demanded large sums of money from the family for its return. A macabre story that could have come straight from one of Chaplin's films, but did in fact happen.
![Charlie Chaplin is laid to rest at Corsier-sur-Vevey in December 1977.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/begrabnis-chaplin-300x209.jpg)
![The theft of the corpse attracts a great deal of media interest.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/titelseite-die-tat-300x285.jpg)
![Even in death he continued to keep the police on their toes: Charlie Chaplin in 'The Kid'.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/chaplin-in-action-238x300.jpg)
![Charlie Chaplin's wife Oona, pictured in 1965: she pretended to go along with the ransom demands.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/oona-oneill-300x176.jpg)
The robbing of the grave became the subject of a film: the trailer for the 2014 cinematic release. YouTube