Boleslav Polívka (born 31 July 1949, in Vizovice) is a Czech film and theatre actor, mime, playwright, and screenwriter.

He graduated from the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno in 1971, in the play Podivné odpoledne dr. Zvonka Burkeho ("The Strange Afternoon of Dr. Zvonek Burke") by Ladislav Smoček.

He also regularly collaborated with Věra Chytilová from the 1980s until her death in 2014, starring in the lead role in several of her "moralistic comedies".

[6] Polívka was involved in what BBC News described as one of the oddest legal disputes of the Czech Republic's history.

In 1997 he began a collaboration with Tomáš Harabiš, who had independently created and officially registered a separate fictional "Wallachian Kingdom", complete with "passports".