His father, Herman McCall, worked as a railroad porter.
He then worked as a railroad porter, a job he despised, until his grandfather's death from cancer in 1939.
In a BBC radio interview she recalled that her father was a railroad porter and her mother a school teacher.
When between performances on stage, like many performers he worked odd jobs to earn money: as a printer, barber, boxing trainer, and railroad porter.
Spiller moved to Southern California to try to make a living teaching, but it want enough to get by, so he worked as a railroad porter.
Casey, assisted by a railroad porter (Morris Chestnut) whom he teaches to shoot a gun, works miracles against an impossible deadline.
"He's a retired railroad porter and that tells you something about an individual automatically."
Unknown to his manager, sometime during the three days, Delaney threw a punch at a railroad porter.
After he retired as a railroad porter, Mr. Nixon became director of a local public housing project.
She was the 20th of 22 children of Ed Rudolph, a railroad porter, from two marriages.