Fulton Greenway is the main antagonist of the 2003 Christmas comedy film Elf and its animated adaptation Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas.
The CEO of Greenway Press and Walter Hobbs's boss, Greenway is a controlling, grumpy, short-tempered, uncaring, and condescending man who is feared among his employees. He first appears in Walter's office with a failed children's book that Walter had published and his niece read. After complaining about how awful the book and two missing pages and a poor financial report, he firmly demands that Walter finds a new book to publish by December 24th. Though it is Christmas Eve, Greenway shows no feelings towards the wondrous night, saying, "And?". This could imply that he cares little to nothing for Christmas and his family.
During the meeting to discuss new book ideas, Michael Hobbs bursts in on Walter's meeting with Greenway to frantically tell him that Buddy is gone. After Michael points out that Walter seems to care more about himself than his family, Walter asks Greenway to reschedule. Greenway coldly refuses and threatens to fire him if he leaves, however, Walter stands up to him, and tell him "up yours". As a result, Greenway furiously screams, "You're finished! You hear me? Your finished here at Greenway!".
Afterwards, his fate is unknown. If he did face defeat, a possibility would be that his company went out of business.
Trivia[]
- In the live-action film, he never interacted with Buddy. In the animated special, he did interact with him.
- In the animated special, he and Miles Finch are combined into the same character.