Rudolph Polk (25 November 1892 New York, New York[1] – 16 June 1957 Los Angeles[2]) was an American concert violinist based in New York City during his early years and, during his later years, a Hollywood film director, film industry executive, and artist manager for Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz, José Iturbi, and Gregor Piatigorsky.
In Hollywood, Polk was the assistant musical director to Morris Stoloff at Columbia Pictures.
Polk graduated from the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin where he studied violin with Henri Marteau.
He also toured with Feodor Chaliapin (and his longtime piano accompanyist, Fyodor Keneman) in the United States.
Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky helped fund the posthumous Rudolph Polk Memorial Scholarship at Claremont Colleges.