While the world celebrates April 16 as Charlie Chaplin's birthday, most of us remember the Tramp — bowler, toothbrush 'stache, and cane held high, shambling silently through a noisy world. But beyond ...

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.