Eugène Lauste was born on January 17, 1857 in Montmartre, Paris, France. He was a director, known for Bullfight (1896) and Drill of the Engineer Corps (1896). He died on June 27, 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.