Nicholas Clapp (May 1, 1936 – July 30, 2025) was an American filmmaker, writer and amateur archaeologist who was called "a modern day Indiana Jones". He received 70 film awards (including Emmys), and several films that he edited received Academy Award nominations. He was a graduate of both Brown University and the University of Southern California film school, and worked for Disney, the National Geographic Society, Columbia Pictures, PBS and the White House.
Personal life and death Clapp was born on May 1, 1936, in Providence, Rhode Island. He was married to Bonnie Loizos, with whom he had two daughters, Jennifer and Cristina. He died after a stroke on July 30, 2025, at the age of 89.
Books
Films The Yanks Are Coming (1963) Let My People Go: The Story of Israel (1965) The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (2 episodes, 1968) The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1968 TV Movie) Journey to the Outer Limits (1973) National Geographic Specials: The Haunted West (1973), The Great Mojave Desert (1975) The Incredible Machine (1975) The Lost City of Arabia (1996), PBS/NOVA
References
External links
Noble Wilford, John (5 February 1992) ”On the Trail From the Sky: Roads Point to a Lost City”, New York Times Ostling, Richard (17 February 1992) Archaeology: Arabia’s Lost Sand Castle, Time (Winter 1992) Space Technology Helps Find Fabled City, Caltech Aspaturlan, Heidi (April 1992) The Road to Ubar, Caltech News Clapp, Nicholas (1 January 1993) “Finding the Lost City,” NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory Clapp, Nicholas (8 October 1996) “Lost City of Arabia,” PBS/NOVA transcript
Bogaev, Barbara (21 April 1998) Documentary Filmmaker Nicholas Clapp Fresh Air, NPR