Phil McDermott

{{short description|British actor}}

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{{BLP sources|date=January 2013}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Phil McDermott

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| occupation = Actor
Priest (trainee)
scrap metal worker
weighbridge operator
carpenter

| known_for = Trevor Short in EastEnders

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Phil McDermott is a British actor. Before turning to acting he was a trainee priest, a scrap metal worker, a weighbridge operator and a carpenter.{{cite book |last= Kingsley|first= Hilary|title= The EastEnders Handbook |year=1990|publisher=BBC books|isbn=0-563-36292-8|title-link= EastEnders spin-offs#Non-fiction books}} He is most famous for playing a regular character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. He played the dim-witted odd-job man Trevor Short from 1989–1990. His character was one of many to be axed from the show in early 1990 following the introduction of the new executive-producer, Michael Ferguson.

Since leaving EastEnders McDermott has appeared in the children's situation comedy Dizzy Heights (BBC, 1991), which was set in a "wacky hotel"."[http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/LCKJ621H Dizzy Heights]", BBC. URL last accessed on 2007-02-04.