Eugène Lauste was born on 17 January 1857 in Montmartre, Paris, France. He was a director, known for Bullfight (1896) and Drill of the Engineer Corps (1896). He died on 27 June 1935 in Montclair, New Jersey, USA.
Chief mechanical assistant to William K.L. Dickson, they invented the Kinetoscope, which their then-employer Thomas A. Edison publicly took credit for.