He worked in approximately 125 movies in his 36 year long film career.
His son's name was Bhushan Tiwari, who too worked in bollywood movies as a character artist.
Ramayana Tiwari was born in a farming family of Maner in Patna, Bihar.
Once, shooting of a movie named Man Mandir was going on in the studio in which a character artist was absent one day.
Later, he acted in many many big movies like Bimal Roy's Madhumati, Yahudi etc., Raj Kapoor's Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai, Kal Aaj Aur Kal, Raj Khosla's Mera Saaya and many more movies.