{{short description|British actor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{BLP sources|date=January 2013}} {{Infobox person | name = Phil McDermott | birth_date = | birth_place = | occupation = Actor <br /> Priest (trainee) <br /> scrap metal worker <br /> weighbridge operator <br /> carpenter | known_for = Trevor Short in ''EastEnders'' }}
'''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.<ref name="EEHandbook">{{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}}</ref> 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".<ref name="dizzy">"[http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/programme/LCKJ621H Dizzy Heights]{{dead link|date=September 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}", ''BBC''. URL last accessed on 2007-02-04.</ref>
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==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0567568|name=Phil McDermott}}
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