Question: Which of the writer for which Joseph Maher took a role of their character died on 9 August 1967?

full_context: Document 1: Ben Jonson: Benjamin "Ben" Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637) was an English playwright, poet, actor, and literary critic, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours. He is best known for the satirical plays "Every Man in His Humour" (1598), "Volpone, or The Fox" (c. 1606), "The Alchemist" (1610) and "Bartholomew Fair" (1614) and for his lyric poetry; he is generally regarded as the second most important English playwright during the reign of James I after William Shakespeare.
Document 2: George Orwell: Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
Document 3: José Maurer: José Maurer (Hebrew: יוסף מאורער‎ ‎ ; May 6, 1906 – May 23, 1968) was a stage and cinema actor starring mainly in the Yiddish theatre in Europe, Argentina and Israel from the early 1920s.
Document 4: Joseph Maher: Joseph Sylvester Maher (pronounced "Ma-her" or "Ma-HARR", December 29, 1933 – July 17, 1998) was an Irish-born naturalized American character actor, playwright and director, best known for his roles in 43 films. He was nominated for three Tony Awards, won a Drama Desk Award and Obie Award, and was a nominee of the Olivier Award for his supporting roles on the stage. He was best known for appearing in plays by Joe Orton.
Document 5: Birtie Maher: Gilbert Thomas "Birtie" Maher (December 16, 1892December 3, 1980) was an American player of American football. Maher was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1892, though it had been alleged that Maher had been born in County Mayo or County Cork in Ireland. Maher's father John Maher was an immigrant from County Tipperary and Maher's mother Margaret (née Kennedy) was the daughter of Elizabeth and Thomas Kennedy, immigrants from County Westmeath. He played college football for the University of Detroit as its star halfback] in 1913, and for the Detroit Heralds starting in 1914. When the Heralds joined the new National Football League (NFL) in 1920, Maher was a member of Detroit's first NFL team.
Document 6: Joe Orton: John Kingsley "Joe" Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967) was an English playwright and author. His public career was short but prolific, lasting from 1964 until his death three years later. During this brief period he shocked, outraged, and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedies. The adjective "Ortonesque" is sometimes used to refer to work characterised by a similarly dark yet farcical cynicism.
Document 7: Joseph Grimaldi: Joseph Grimaldi (18 December 1778 – 31 May 1837) was an English actor, comedian and dancer, who became the most popular English entertainer of the Regency era. In the early 1800s, he expanded the role of Clown in the harlequinade that formed part of British pantomimes, notably at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and the Sadler's Wells and Covent Garden theatres. He became so dominant on the London comic stage that the harlequinade role of Clown became known as "Joey", and both the nickname and Grimaldi's whiteface make-up design were, and still are, used by other types of clowns. Grimaldi originated catchphrases such as "Here we are again!", which continue to feature in modern pantomimes.
Document 8: Joseph Anthony: Joseph Anthony (May 24, 1912 – January 20, 1993) was an American playwright, actor, and director. He made his film acting debut in the 1934 film "Hat, Coat, and Glove" and his theatrical acting debut in a 1935 production of "Mary of Scotland". On five occasions he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Direction.
Document 9: Patrick Bedford: Patrick Bedford (May 30, 1932, Dublin, Ireland – November 20, 1999; New York City, United States) was an Irish stage actor. He began his career in the 1950s at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, including productions of Chekhov, Shaw and Shakespeare, and later worked on the stage and in television in England. He was in the original stage production of "Philadelphia, Here I Come!" by Brian Friel, at the Gaiety Theatre Dublin, later in London and then New York which earned him a Tony Award nomination in 1965 for Best Actor (with Donal Donnelly). and an Outer Circle Critics Award.
Document 10: Sean Mahon: Sean Mahon is an Irish stage and screen actor. He is known for playing Nicky Giblin in the Broadway production of "The Seafarer", Richard Hannay in the Broadway production of "The 39 Steps" and Michael Hess (the lost son) in the award winning feature film, "Philomena". In 2014 he was nominated for a best lead actor award for his portrayal of maverick cop Brian McGonigle in the Irish Drama Red Rock. After much success in Ireland, Red Rock now plays on the BBC in the UK and on Amazon Prime in the US.
Document 11: Adolf Mahr: Adolf Mahr (7 May 1887 - 27 May 1951) was the best-known Nazi in Ireland in the 1930s and one of the most controversial figures in twentieth-century Irish history.
Document 12: Kenneth Halliwell: Kenneth Leith Halliwell (23 June 1926 – 9 August 1967) was a British actor, writer and collagist. He was the mentor, boyfriend and murderer of playwright Joe Orton.
Document 13: Alan Sillitoe: Alan Sillitoe (4 March 192825 April 2010) was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He is best known for his debut novel "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and early short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", both of which were adapted into films.
Document 14: The Atheist (play): The Atheist is written by Irish born playwright, Ronan Noone. His previous plays include "The Lepers of Baile Baiste" (Critics Pick, Boston Globe) and "The Blowin of Baile Gall" which had its Off-Broadway debut, produced by Gabriel Byrne, at the Irish arts Center in New York in 2005. "The Blowin of Baile Gall" was nominated by the American Theatre Critics Association for the Steinberg New Play Award and won the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding New Script. In 2003, Noone was chosen by Boston Magazine as the Best Young Playwright of the Year. The subject of "The Atheist" is not God, but the religion of tabloid journalism.
Document 15: Oscar Wilde: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was a prolific Irish writer who wrote plays, fiction, essays, and poetry. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, the novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray", as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.
ground_truth: Joe Orton