Downfall was a ska and punk band from the Bay Area formed by Tim Armstrong, Matt Freeman, Dave Mello, Pat Mello, and Jason Hammon following the break-up of Operation Ivy in 1989 and pre-dating Armstrong's and Freeman's wider recognition in Rancid. They performed three shows, one at 924 Gilman Street, over a period of three months.

The only official Downfall releases were the songs "North Berkeley" on the "Can of Pork" compilation on Lookout! Records, "New Regulations" on the "Very Small World" compilation on Very Small Records, "Long Way to Go" on the "They Don't Get Paid, They Don't Get Laid, But Boy Do They Work Hard!" compilation LP on Maximum RocknRoll, and "My City" on the "Later That Same Year" compilation cassette/CD. Downfall recorded a 10" LP called "Get Ready For Action" for Lookout! records, but it was delayed, and never released. In the mid 1990s, Brett Gurewitz remixed the album, but due to Rancid's mainstream attention, it was also never released. Low quality recordings of the songs are available, hard to track down, and extremely well received by Operation Ivy fans who have heard them.

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Tom Ward (born 11 January 1971) is a British film, stage and television actor.

Tom Ward was born in Swansea, to the poet and academic John Powell Ward and Sarah Ward OBE, a farmer. His brother Tristan became a partner at Macfarlanes LLP, a firm of solicitors in the City of London.

Ward was sent to the Dragon School in Oxford and The King's School, Canterbury. He went on to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Lincoln College in the University of Oxford; and there he became a member of the drama society, and decided to pursue acting as a career.

Ward is chiefly known for his role as Dr. Harry Cunningham in the long-running forensic drama series, Silent Witness.

He has fenced for Britain. He plays saxophone, sings and dances. He keeps fit by riding, a skill that he has used in several television roles.

In 2005 he was a winner on the BBC TV quiz show, Celebrity Mastermind; his specialist subject was the poet Philip Larkin.

In 2001 Tom Ward married journalist Emily Hohler. They live in Oxford with their three children: Jack, born in 2002, Tabitha, born in 2004, and Jimmy, born in 2006.