Career
Before turning to acting he was a trainee priest, a scrap metal worker, a weighbridge operator and a carpenter. He is most famous for playing a regular character in the British Broadcasting Corporation 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 early in 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 (British Broadcasting Corporation. 1991), which was set in a "wacky hotel".
